“Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.”
― The Man in the High Castle
― The Man in the High Castle
“Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And—how many of us do know it?”
― The Man in the High Castle
― The Man in the High Castle
“Oracle, why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? What are we supposed to learn?”
― The Man in the High Castle
― The Man in the High Castle
“Watching him, Juliana thought, It's idealism that makes him that bitter. Asking too much out of life. Always moving on, restless and griped.”
― The Man in the High Castle
― The Man in the High Castle
“Am I the only one who knows? I'll bet I am; nobody else really understands Grasshopper but me - they just imagine they do.”
― The Man in the High Castle
― The Man in the High Castle
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