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“If one invests some interest in, for example, a tree and begins to form some thoughts about this tree then writes these thoughts down, further examining the meanings that surface, allowing for unconscious associations to take place, writing all this down as well, until the subject of the tree branches off into the subject of the shelf, that person will enjoy immense psychological benefits.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“The Haunting was the feeling you got sometimes, in the Vurt, the real world calling you home. There's more to life than this. This is just a game.”
― Vurt
― Vurt
“Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.”
― Death of a Salesman
― Death of a Salesman
“Time seemed stationary, yet the painful pressure of time was constantly felt.”
― The Room
― The Room
“The growing sensitivity of people to any sort of open and frank discussion of important issues is no service to civilisation, let alone law and order. I wrote a play about a man who happened to be a salesman, and several organisations of sales people flew to arms. Now it is the lawyers. If I am to back away from these objections you must surely see that I shall be forced to write about people with no occupation whatever.”
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