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Every one imagines that fear and anger, violence and desire, rage laced with the surprise capacity to forgive—character—is all that matters in the end.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed – all he’s got to do is thump on the drum, and there’s his response.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
George Saunders • On Political Writing
There’s a kind of gap between what I think is real and what’s really real.
Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
David Foster Wallace • Deciderization 2007—a Special Report
He was aware that in thus relegating to irreality a major portion of the only reality, the only existence, that he in fact did have, he was running exactly the same risk the insane mind runs: the loss of the sense of free will.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Lathe of Heaven
it all was somehow grander, more in the old spirit than the actual world. The world of German hegemony.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
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