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Because lies are pretty little masks we place on our words to tint the truth into something palatable.
“Where do we go in dreams if not to a universal library? Such a infinite library would be brain-lik, characterised by labyrinthine passages where firing synapses distantly crackle, mythic beings appear and vanish, all is limitless but obscurely connected: Pan’s Labyrinth meets The Master and Margarita.”
― The Bookseller's Tale
― The Bookseller's Tale
“Only different people change the world,” Granny used to say. “No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing.”
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
“New ideas, fragile as spring flowers, easily bruised by the tread of the multitude, may yet be cherished by the solitary wanderer.”
― The Black Cloud
― The Black Cloud
“When one realizes the tremendous evolution of one's being which occurs in a lifetime one is bound to ask: ...did I learn my lesson here on earth?”
― The Bookseller's Tale
― The Bookseller's Tale
“I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don’t convince me and that our civilisation over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
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