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“The sheer oddity of life seems to me of more and more importance, because more and more the pretense is that life is charted, predictable, and controllable.”
― Painted Devils: Strange Stories
― Painted Devils: Strange Stories
“It’s a bit like cricket,” Pete agrees. “Weeks of endless boredom interspersed with the occasional moment of existential terror.”
― The Labyrinth Index
― The Labyrinth Index
“The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word.”
― The Ticket That Exploded
― The Ticket That Exploded
“loose lips don’t merely sink ships, they summon krakens with too many tentacles.”
― The Nightmare Stacks
― The Nightmare Stacks
“There's always some idiot who thinks that after the revolution they'll be the one sitting on top of the hill of corpses, dining on caviar served out of a bowl made of a chromed baby's skull.”
― The Nightmare Stacks
― The Nightmare Stacks
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