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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Women
― Women
“All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children. [...] I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.”
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“I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.”
― Lady Oracle
― Lady Oracle
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