The truth is, we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult, the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Tags: writing, inspiration, imagination
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Tags: accuracy, knows, down, you
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
Tags: everything, country, america, down
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Tags: should, because, know, you
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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