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White Noise (1985)
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California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
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Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.
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Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
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The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
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The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.
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Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
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In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
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There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.
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We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
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There was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
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Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
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Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
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Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.
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In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.
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Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
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Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.
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It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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Every disaster made us wish for something bigger, grander, more sweeping.
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Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
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Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.
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Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.
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He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
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The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
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It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
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In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.
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November 20, 1936
(age 87)
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