"What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new."

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William Sargant

“The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.”
“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was ....”
“I was found on Youtube. I think I was detrimental to my own career.”
“But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relationâ€”and yours tooâ€”to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secretâ€™s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.”
“I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.”
“Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a number of other riparian species.”
“Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.”
“Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.”

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