“I agree that ghosts only appear to the sick, but that only proves that they are unable to appear except to the sick, not that they don't exist.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind - how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”
― Golden Son
― Golden Son
“Americans seem to want the product, at the cheapest possible price, while objecting loudly to its harvest.”
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“It’s an old illness you suffer from, Mr. Smiley,” she continued, taking a cigarette from the box; “and I have seen many victims of it. The mind becomes separated from the body; it thinks without reality, rules a paper kingdom and devises without emotion the ruin of its paper victims. But sometimes the division between your world and ours is incomplete; the files grow heads and arms and legs, and that’s a terrible moment, isn’t it? The names have families as well as records, and human motives to explain the sad little dossiers and their make-believe sins. When that happens I am sorry for you.”
― Call for the Dead
― Call for the Dead
“The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
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