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You’re not just out of your body; you’re out of your mind, too.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
It’s not religious fervor; it’s just a mean, very cruel streak.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan empire from which he now derived nothing.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
He glared at her. Women can get a man to do anything, he realized. Mother, wife, even employee; they twist us like hot little bits of thermoplastic.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
So that’s that, Barney said to himself. I violated Rule One of career-oriented functioning: never tell your superior something he doesn’t want to hear.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I’m rotten. I’ve done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
Isn’t a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion? Or is it illusion, Barney? I don’t know anything about philosophy; you explain it to me because all I know is religious faith and that doesn’t equip me to understand this.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
“Isn’t there any way—” He broke off. Can’t the past be altered? he asked himself. Evidently not. Cause and effect work in only one direction, and change is real. So what’s gone is gone, and I might as well get out of here.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)