"Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in."
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"Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense - Mr Nobody on the fundamental philosophy of the Brotherhood of DADA"
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"I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires."
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"I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story."
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"I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes ()"
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"Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home."
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"Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are."
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"It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it?"
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"Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real."
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"Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in."
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"The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?"
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"It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic."
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"Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people."
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"Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another."
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"The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations."
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"Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think."
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"Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!"
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"The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored."
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"The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world."
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"Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa."
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