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SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After…

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After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in…
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we…
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It…
Perception of a state is not the state.
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be…
At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at…
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive;…
Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been;…
Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and…

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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,… — Lewis Mumford
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the… — Emile M. Cioran
Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and… — Denis Waitley
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them. — Pamela Stephenson
Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka
I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there. — Alda Merini
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and… — William J. Clinton
People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of… — Olivier Clement
I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly… — Pablo Neruda
Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will… — Unknown Author
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers. — Catherine Deneuve

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