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Salman Rushdie
“‎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.”
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

Don DeLillo
“Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.”
Don DeLillo, White Noise

Thomas Pynchon
“...a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it...”
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

Don DeLillo
“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?”
Don DeLillo, White Noise
tags: fear

Harper Lee
“Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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