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"It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces."
"There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality."
"Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out."
"Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them."
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"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."
"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."
"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo."
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