“* Art is memory made public... as long as the art endures, a song or a view or a thought or a feeling someone once taught worth keeping is saved and stays shareable, others can say, 'I feel that too.'”

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“* Marriage is an anchor, lads. Stops you drifting onto rocks, but stops you voyaging as well.”

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“A brain constructs a model of reality. If that model isn't too different from most people's model, you're labeled sane. If the model is different, you'r labels a genius, a misfit, a visionary, or a nutcase In extreme cases, you're labeled a schizophrenic and locked up.”

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“An ounce of perception, a pound of obscure.”

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“Coincidence! Coincidence. The last refuge of the bankrupt intellectual.”

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“Dean wonders where his own anger and contempt have gone. Time's a fire extinguisher, he thinks.”

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“Disaster is the mother of opportunity.”

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“Do you think reality is just a mirror for something else... what reflection ever guessed that it is a reflection?”

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“Every third or fourth generation is a generation of radicals, of revolutionaries. We, my friends, are the bottle-smashers. We release the genies... But the genies we set loose stay loose... Those whispers are the blueprints of the future.”

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“Fame molds itself onto you face. Then it molds your face. Fame brings you immunity from the usual rules. Problem is, if fame is a drug, its hard to kick... When I had fame, fame was killing me. Now it's gone, anonymity is killing me.”

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“For a brief spell, we share a stage. Others are coming to kick us off. But while you're here, write yourself a good part. Act it well.”

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“I don't want him to lose his faith in psychiatry. The world has too many mystics and not enough scientists.”

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“I used to think you became a star by having hits... No—you are a star first, therefore you have the hits.”

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“If the goods aren't for sale, don't put 'em in the window.”

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“If you don't write it down, it didn't happen... Writing is a forest of faint paths, of dead ends, hidden pits, unresolved chords, words that won't rhyme. You can be lost in there for hours, Days, even.”

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“Is the past tense a trick of the mind? Is sanity a matrix of these tricks?”

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“Jesus's disciples were, essentially, hippies: long hair, gown, stoner expressions, irregular employment, spiritual convictions, dubious sleeping arrangements, and a guru.”

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“Labels... They save you the bother of thinking. They become a habit. You start thinking reality is the labels... The trouble is, reality's the opposite... the Queen of Freedoms is this: to be free of labels.”

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“loneliness is the default state of the world. Friends, family, love or a band are the rare anomalies... You're born alone, you die alone, and for most of what lies between, you are alone.”

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“Men need to get laid. For women it's less of a 'must' and more of a 'might be nice' or a 'possibly.' We can't win. If we don't play the game, we're frigid or we can't get a man. If we play the game too much, we're a slut, the village bike, damaged goods... patriarchy is a stitch-up.”

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“Music frees the soul from the cage of the body. Music transforms the Many to a One.”

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“Paradise is the road to paradise.”

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“Problems tangle up like clothes in a tumble dryer.”

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“Reality erases itself as it re-records... Time is the Great Forgetter”

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“Separateness is an illusion, what we do to another, we do to ourselves.”

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“Sex is the puppet-master.”

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“Songs, like dandelion seeds, billowing across space and time. Who knows where they'll land? Or what they'll bring? Where will all these song seeds land... If a song plants an idea or a feeling in a mind, it has already changed the world.”

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“Suffering is the promise that life always keeps... Grief is the bill of love fallen due.”

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“The present is a curtain and most of us can't see behind it. Those who do see—via luck or prescience—change what is there by seeing. That's why it's unknowable.”

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“The word 'faster' is becoming a synonym of 'better.' As if the goal of human evolution is to be a sentient bullet.”

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“Time is what stops everything from happening at once.”

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“We think we are a One, but you and I know an 'I' is a 'Many.' There's a Nice Guy Me. Psychopath Me... I is an Empire of 'I's.”

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“when we look at a thing, we change what it is. Which is exactly why we never see things as they are, only as we are.”

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“Why, he wondered, do Normals get so worked up about who's having sex with whom? Surely people who want to sleep with each other will do so, until one or both no longer want it. Then it ends. Like the end of the mating season in the animal kingdom. If everyone just accepted that, there would be no more heartache.”

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“Your big mistake is to assume your brain generates a bubble of consciousness you call 'Me.'... The truth is that you're not your own private 'I.' You are to consciousness what the flame of a match is to the Milky Way.Your brain only taps into consciousness. You aren't a broadcaster. You're a transceiver.”

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