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There is no escape - another lesson of history.
Mortality is a visitor never gone for long -
- from Steven Erikson's Deadhouse Gates
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in any country.
- Hermann Goering
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups...So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.
- Philip K. Dick
These are the pale deaths
which men miscall thier lives:
for all the scents of green things growing,
each breath is but an exhalation of the grave.
Bodies jerk like puppet corpses,
and hell walks laughing--
- from Stephen R. Donaldson's Lord Foul's Bane
