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> [I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds nested and sang in the dead of night, because for them, it was day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/i-grew-up-in-a-haunting-postindustrial-landscape-where-prehistoric/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

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> [Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/everything-is-a-railway-junction-where-past-and-future-are-sliding/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

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## More by Timothy Morton

> [Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/psychologism-holds-that-logical-assertions-are-percolations-of-brains/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> ['Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/free-speech-isn-t-speech-at-all-if-it-s-being-used-without-listening/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/it-s-easier-to-be-eric-idle-than-to-be-paul-mccartney/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the constructivist spokespeople…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/a-weird-thing-is-a-strange-loop-what-some-of-us-call-an-object-thus/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/after-a-lifetime-of-listening-to-every-floyd-album-pretty-much-all/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [“Wholes subscend their parts, which means that parts are not just mechanical components of wholes, and that there can be genuine surprise and novelty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/wholes-subscend-their-parts-which-means-that-parts-are-not-just/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/unfortunately-of-course-guilt-is-an-artifact-of-agricultural-age/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/always-say-less-than-you-think-you-need-inject-some-space-into-the/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/in-the-end-a-lifeform-is-always-a-hybrid-a-being-endowed-with-some-x/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [“I call this double truth of a thing its fragility, the inner fragility of a thing is why a thing can exist at all.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/i-call-this-double-truth-of-a-thing-its-fragility-the-inner-fragility/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [“Solidarity requires having something in common. But having something in common is exactly what culturalism sees as essentialism, and thus as reactionary primitivism. How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/solidarity-requires-having-something-in-common-but-having-something/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/spending-some-money-on-the-you-who-is-going-to-get-a-job-is-essential/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/i-try-to-have-little-or-no-alcohol-when-i-go-to-a-big-conference/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/i-grew-up-in-a-haunting-postindustrial-landscape-where-prehistoric/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in a folder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/i-m-the-absolute-worst-at-getting-jobs-ever-i-had-100-rejections/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

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