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- Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
- Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But…
- MARG: You are so close.STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from…
- You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m…
- Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.
- The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a…
- The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is…
- Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the…
- There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from…
- Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left…
- It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
- He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope…
- All variables are independent.
- There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known…
- A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or…
- What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all…
- All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who…
- Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.
- Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei,…
- She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’…but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide