Language Quote by Peter Tieryas

““Words should have gravity. If you can't get arrested for a word, it probably isn't worth using.””

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“It's silence that I want to hear. That single instance where a person is bare and pure and doesn't know how to feel. the…

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“Walking on water is easy if you know where to step.”

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“That's the way history works. People forget so easily. You start telling yourself a new version of the past, and after a while, it…

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“The bullets echoed death’s siren muted by gunpowder dissipating into smoke.”

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“Akiko was in a meeting with her superior officers when she farted and tore a hole in her chair. The fart was so powerful,…

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“Why assume there is only one type of light that can reveal all the digital layers of reality?”

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“...if a person could discard 99% of their life and experience only the best 1%, would they think life a grand and beautiful thing?”

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“Akiko was in a store that sold memories, a mishmash of tawdry emancipation bottled into faked vulnerability and fingernails from forgotten musicians grilled on…

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“We'd rage a war, sun versus the stars of the earth and duke it out. Not for dominance, but the darkness of anonymity, the…

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“Everything in life is us trying to reproduce that first moment. That frenzy of unsustainable energy exploding into a billion directions.”

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“Kujira crunched her fists and the monster within died. The biomorph melted into a reservoir of rancor and loathing. Kujira”

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“the sensor readings of hundreds of humans were crushed into millisecond flatlines. “A”

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