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The "paranoid fiction" label (which had admittedly beguiled me into cracking this thing open) is quite deceiving.
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"I'm going to finish this behemoth and then never pick up another book again." — Nov 30, 2015 02:10PM
"I'm going to finish this behemoth and then never pick up another book again." — Nov 30, 2015 02:10PM
“It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.”
― Underworld
― Underworld
“You do not carry the cross. Instead you are all crucified on the timber of your sufficiency, which is given to you, the more you insist, the more you bleed: it suits you to say you carry the cross like a sacred duty, whereas you are heavy with the weight of your necessities. Have the courage not to admit those necessities and lift yourselves up for your own sakes.”
― Persuasion and Rhetoric
― Persuasion and Rhetoric
“By the way, I do think that awareness is different from thinking. I am similar to most other people, I believe, in that I do not really do my most important thinking in large, intentional blocks where I sit down uninterrupted in a chair and know in advance what it is I'm going to think about... It doesn't work like that for me.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“Author here.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“Knowing that internal stress could cause failure on the exam merely set up internal stress about the prospect of internal stress.”
― The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
― The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
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