Roy Van Eijk
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“If I am I, because you are you, and you are you, because I am I, then I am not I, and you are not you. But if I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you, and we can talk.”
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“...convention [is] the most subtle but oppressive dictator.
[Edith 'Ditte' Thompson]”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
[Edith 'Ditte' Thompson]”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
“Look- here's a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the cage is a white rabbit with a pink nose and pink-rimmed eyes. [...] On its back, clearly marked in blue ink, is the numeral 8. [...] The most interesting thing here isn't even the carrot-munching rabbit in the cage, but the number on its back. Not a six, not a four, not nineteen-point-five. It's an eight. This is what we're looking at, and we all see it. I didn't tell you. You didn't ask me. I never opened my mouth and you never opened yours. We're not even in the same year together, let alone the same room... except we are together. We are close. We're having a meeting of the minds. [...] We've engaged in an act of telepathy. No mythy-mountain shit; real telepathy.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
― The Histories
― The Histories
“A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”
― Free Will
― Free Will
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