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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

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I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

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Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you...more

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We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture th...more

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Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses.

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Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she...more

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It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

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Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.

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And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everything Must Go.

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The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey.

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The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

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Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places.

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and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

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But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "...more

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You haven't finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. You're afraid of finding you can't finish. You're afraid to go down to where t...more