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Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality dif...more

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Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.

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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who m...more

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Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the...more

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He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched, it began to die out. He saw it turn from a furiou...more

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Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

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We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the m...more

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Maybe I shouldn’t have told you––about it being electrical.” She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, ...more

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

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The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?

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We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. ...more

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You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you.""I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I ...more

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He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him as strange. A shimmer, an un...more

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The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one -- in this case an attempt by a beleaguered mind to...more

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I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon S...more