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“Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.”
― Literature Is Freedom
― Literature Is Freedom
“I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.”
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“I desire therefore I exist.”
― The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
― The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
“It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“San Narciso lay further south, near L.A. Like many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts—census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
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