Lisa Mason Quotes

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The technopolistic plutocracy will dump pollutants into the atmosphere for another century on the grounds that compliance with limits is too expensive.

Lisa Mason
The girl with her face. A Devolved Entity Manifested from the Other Now? A demon that wants to off her? It's like the rumors of concentration camps. So weird she can't believe it, and so plausible she can't afford to disbelieve it.

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By the time people could speak about mandatory population control in a rational way, it was too late.

Lisa Mason
Junk does that. Junk is a forge. You enter the fire and come out twisted.

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Acid, says the guy with the eyes, raises your powers of integration so that everything is important.
Acid, says Chiron, lowers your powers of discrimination so that everything seems important.

Lisa Mason
You are either the man in the white coat or you are the monkey. Susan sees herself as the monkey.

Lisa Mason
What was that teacher trying to do?
That teacher was trying to break her spirit.
But why would school do that? So you could become someone like her parents and believe in the things they believe in. So you won't believe in the things they don't believe in. And believe you're a happy person whose life has meaning. So you will go to your job and do whatever gross thing someone tells you to do and get drunk on Friday and Saturday nights and pay taxes and bills. That's why.

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Since they were little, wishing on the first star of the evening, they both understood this: the most exciting game in life is to invent yourself.

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In the beginning and the end, it's all a crapshoot. The Cosmic Mind does play dice. Loves to gamble, in fact.

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She's got space. Lots of space in her house. What about in her heart?

Lisa Mason