“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.”
― Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
― Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
“Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety.
At any rate that afforded me some comfort.”
― Laughable Loves
At any rate that afforded me some comfort.”
― Laughable Loves
“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
“That is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”
― Deadeye Dick
― Deadeye Dick
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