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“...a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it...”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)”
― White Noise: Text and Criticism
― White Noise: Text and Criticism
“Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”
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