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• He saw the crowd and thought of the waves moving through them, breaking into white, swallowing foam.
  The small figures dimly sensed the eddies of the waves as paradox, as riddle, and heard the tick of time without knowing what they sensed, and clung to their linear illusions of past and future, of progression, of their opening births and yawning deaths to come....
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• Hope is a shooting a homosexual with his boyfriend.
• The cable had passed us by; the dish was the only hope, and eventually we were all forced to turn to it.
  By the summer of '85, the valley had more satellite dishes per capita than an Eskimo village on the north slope of Alaska....
• How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 18...
• When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands.
  Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again....