"The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth."
- Dean Koontz
“Words are the only bullets in Truth’s bandolier. And Poets are the Snipers.”
– Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"The greatest strength is gentleness."
- Iroquois Proverb
“And above it all the butterfly affect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single day in that human's life: unplannable, unpredictable, governed by the hidden tides of chaotic factors and buffered by butterfly wings...”
- Dan Simmons, The Hollow Man
"Every expression of closeness has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth."
- Dean Koontz
"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
“The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.”
- Dan Simmons, Prayers to Broken Stones
"After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC)
"Well hey, these things just snap right off!"
- Gary Larson
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"There's nothing to writing, really...all you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed."
- Ernest Hemingway
“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children."
- Sam Levenson
"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
- Hosea Ballou
"Sweater: n;
A garment worn by a child when its mother is chilly."
- Ambrose Pierce
"Stupidity has a price, and it always get's paid."
- Dan Simmons, (The Fall of Hyperion)
“Where does she get these marvellous pictures?”
I can identify with this(if I understood it right).
Like the Judas bastard in The Matrix said, “Ignorance is bliss”.
I’m gonna go get my mind wiped, start believing in mainstream politicians and and capitalism, hate Russia, take my meds, watch Big Brother and talk about it at work the next day with the bullies around the water cooler, prostitute myself for 3 holidays a year, get an impossible mortgage, marry someone I enjoy fucking for 5 minutes then play blame chess with for all eternity, spew out copies of ourselves to distract us till we die, join the team and come in for the big win!
SOMA SOMA SOMA SOMA SOMA!
Looking behind the curtain is poison in a world such as this. There’s no going back and you’re in for a rough ride the rest of your days.
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A-fucking-men, my friend…as usual, you nailed it.
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sorry I got a bit carried away there. Long weird day!
No, you nailed it, I just copied it!!! Great words AJ as always.
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