your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
“the public life of liberal Hollywood comprises a kind of dictatorship of good intentions, a social contract in which actual and irreconcilable disagreement is as taboo as failure or bad teeth, a climate devoid of irony.”
― The White Album: Essays
― The White Album: Essays
“As Edgar Allan Poe said, in a good plot, “no part can be displaced without ruin to the whole.”3”
― The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
― The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“Everything was unmentionable but nothing was unimaginable. This mystical flirtation with the idea of “sin”—this sense that it was possible to go “too far,” and that many people were doing it—was very much with us in Los Angeles in 1968 and 1969.”
― The White Album: Essays
― The White Album: Essays
“But I ain’t likely to write you no poem, if you follow me. Your AI, it just might. But it ain’t no way human.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“Disorder was its own point.”
― The White Album: Essays
― The White Album: Essays
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