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Inherent Vice
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms,”
Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

David  Lynch
“People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.”
David Lynch

Angela Carter
“Women do not normally fuck in the active sense. They are fucked in the passive tense and hence automatically fucked-up, done over, undone.”
Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

Søren Kierkegaard
“The only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at it”
Søren Kierkegaard

Jonathan Franzen
“But in the world of consumer advertising and consumer purchasing, no evil is moral. The evils consist of high prices, inconvenience, lack of choice, lack of privacy, heartburn, hair loss, slippery roads. This is no surprise, since the only problems worth advertising solutions for are problems treatable through the spending of money. But money cannot solve the problem of bad manners—the chatterer in the darkened movie theater, the patronizing sister-in-law, the selfish sex partner—except by offering refuge in an atomized privacy. And such privacy is exactly what the American Century has tended toward.”
Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone: Essays

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