Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

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Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

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Why should things be easy to understand?

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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

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Shall I project a world?

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If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

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