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In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

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Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and ba...more

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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that...more

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Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution ...more

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There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

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You’ve remained on the battleground, center stage, experiencing life and, what’s more important, experiencing yourself experiencing it. You haven't be...more

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Now and again, one could detect in a childless woman of a certain age the various characteristics of all the children she had never issued. Her body w...more

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We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to be unfolding in a foreign tongu...more

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The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

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Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is t...more

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Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be j...more

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She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origin...more

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On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling...more

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Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment ...more

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Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, ...more