“Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.”
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“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”
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“Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.”
― The Politics of Friendship
― The Politics of Friendship
“He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
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