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You're a fool if you don't realize this is going to be the reactionary's century, perhaps their thousand-year reign. It's the one thing Hitler said which wasn't completely hysterical.

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder… The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

Amazing how quickly the past becomes idyllic.

time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar: it’s a sea on which you float.

Glenn used to say the reason you can’t really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, “I’ll be dead,” you’ve said the word I, and so you’re still alive inside the sentence. And that’s how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul — it was a consequence of grammar.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

“It's better to hope than mope!”

“But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking if you don't get more.”

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

“I am not my childhood," Snowman says out loud.

“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”

“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”