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Ken Kesey
“Certain facts were apparent: dark; cold; thundering boots; quilts; pillow; light under the door—the materials of reality—but I could not pin these materials down in time. And the raw materials of reality without that glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.”
Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion

André Aciman
“Oliver, I’m happy,” I said.

He looked at me in wonderment. “You’re just horny.”
André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

Samantha Harvey
“Her husband says that Africa from space looks like a late Turner; those near-formless landscapes of thick impasto shot with light. He’d told her once that if he were ever to be where she is, he’d spend his whole time in tears, helpless in the face of the earth’s bare beauty. But that he’d never be where she is because he’s a man who disappoints himself with his need of firm ground. He needs stability inside and out, and to simplify his life lest it overwhelm him. There are people like him (so he says) who complicate their inner lives by feeling too much all at once, by living in knots, and who therefore need outer things to be simple. A house, a field, some sheep for example. And there are those who manage somehow, by some miracle of being, to simplify their inner lives so that outer things can be ambitious and limitless. Those people can swap out a house for a spaceship, a field for a universe. And though he’d give his leg to be the latter, it’s not the kind of thing you can trade a leg for – in any case who’d want his leg if they already had limitlessness?”
Samantha Harvey, Orbital

John Steinbeck
“The paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership.”
John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Ken Kesey
“Where is my world? he was wanting to know, and where the hell am I if I can’t locate it?”
Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion

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