"I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one."

-- Herman Melville

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“There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.”

Source : "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.
“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”

Source : "How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later". Speech by Philip K. Dick, published in "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" (book by Philip K. Dick), 1978.
“Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun”
“The Regulars are coming out!”
“There's blood behind the Night Stalker.”
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
“We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.”
“I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.”

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