Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

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Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life.

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The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

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It is straightforward�and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

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When you�ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

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Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

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When a man conclusively exalts one woman, and one woman only, 'above all others,' you can be pretty sure you are dealing with a misogynist. It frees him up for thinking the rest are shit.

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You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal.

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We all have names we don't know about.

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