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    Clive Barker
    “The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.”
    ― Clive Barker
    tags: art, bacon, beauty, bosch, francis-bacon, goya, paintings, taste
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    Clive Barker
    “I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives?

    So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.”
    ― Clive Barker, Sacrament
    tags: god, stories, writing
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    Gérard de Nerval
    “I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?”
    ― Gerard De Nerval
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude
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    William S. Burroughs
    “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: hell, popularity
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    William S. Burroughs
    “In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.”
    ― William Burroughs
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit -- not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: disadvantage, internal, parasites
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    H.L. Mencken
    “A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: cynic, definitions
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second series
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    Saki
    “A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.”
    ― H.H. Munro
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    Saki
    “He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”
    ― H. H. Munro a
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: egotism, humor, sarcasm, taste
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: definitions
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
    tags: education
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce
    tags: delusion, humor, lunatics, philosopher
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    Martin Amis
    “I have always derived great comfort from William Shakespeare. After a depressing visit to the mirror or an unkind word from a girlfriend or an incredulous stare in the street, I say to myself: 'Well. Shakespeare looked like shit.' It works wonders.”
    ― Martin Amis, Money
    tags: shakespeare
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    Martin Amis
    “The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.”
    ― Martin Amis (Author)
    tags: writers-on-writing
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    Martin Amis
    “He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.”
    ― Martin Amis, The Information
    tags: humor, humour
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    Martin Amis
    “Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.”
    ― Martin Amis, House of Meetings
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    Martin Amis
    “Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.”
    ― Martin Amis , Time's Arrow
    tags: cruelty
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    William Gibson
    “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
    ― William Gibson
    tags: future, planning
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    William Gibson
    “Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
    ― William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor
    tags: memory, time
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    William Gibson
    “When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
    ― William Gibson, Zero History
    tags: design, engineering, psychoanalysis, psychology
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    J.G. Ballard
    “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
    ― J.G. Ballard
    tags: imagination, immortality
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    J.G. Ballard
    “I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again ... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul”
    ― J.G. Ballard
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    J.G. Ballard
    “The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...”
    ― J.G. Ballard
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    J.G. Ballard
    “All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonize past and future. The same trend can be seen in personal relationships, in the way people are expected to package themselves, their emotions and sexuality, in attractive and instantly appealing forms.”
    ― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
    tags: artificiality, disney, future, history, past, relationships, simulation
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    J.G. Ballard
    “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.”
    ― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
    tags: pornography, science
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    J.G. Ballard
    “Sooner or later, everything turns into television.”
    ― J.G. Ballard
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