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“The work to be done will be that of a true author, a true artist. It will be done alone.”
“All islands need some sort of connection, even the great ones.”
“Forsake reason, embrace the id.”
“Reason… suasion. Thought! As always, the answer is in an appeal to rationality!”
“Demons don’t really think; they just do—hatred and want too hot for reason.”
“Everybody loves the sixties, especially those who weren’t there.”
“Any time spent on fucking Gawker is regrettable.”
“Really, who doesn’t like Mexican, though?”
“Sex, hate, attraction, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, oxytocin, too much intertwined.”
“Love and be loved in return, but don’t make your love conditional on being loved back.”
“Stupidity goes hand in hand with racism.”
“We all must do things we don’t like.”
“Potential isn’t in a limitless sky. It’s in the clouds. And it’s online.”
“Clouds are very pretty from above.”
“All significant action must be followed by inaction.”
“Enough reading, time for action.”
“Highs only seem higher after a low.”
“Time to pull the trigger, time to make it official.”
“It’s all body, all heart. Pure bliss.”
“Déjà vu is something you know when you feel.”
“Being too cold is just as bad as being too hot.”
“When it comes to feeling, out of sight really is out of mind.”
“Maybe there’s room for both, telling as well as showing. It’s something to think about.”
“New York is sweltering in the summertime.”
“New York used to have Edenlike summers.”
“Everything about the beach is terrible.”
“Them, graves, the city in late-August haze: a twenty-first-century American Gothic.”
“No riddle, no koan, no double-cross.”
“Emerson Towers does not mourn the Culture; God does, and you should, too.”
“Just gotta do you. Always. If you can’t handle the power, you can’t handle the power.”
“I’m a projection of… no man’s mind. I am… my own.”
“Imperfect; flawed, but trying.”
“To rise you must first fall.”
“When night fails you, look toward the morning.”
“Baths don’t really get you any cleaner. You just swim in filth.”
“I know you’re not going… to kill me. I’m already dead.”
“All prisoners need exercise, even dead ones.”
“If I’m an angel, I’m the angel… of death.”