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- Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known…
- The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is…
- It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.
- The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are…
- I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.
- He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed…
- In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the…
- You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer." "Did he show you slides?"…
- Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if…
- Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
- You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The…
- It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he…
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