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I submit that all psychotherapy is manipulation; that as psychiatrists we do not heal people, but manipulate their neuroses into functional modes.

— Lucius Shepard Green Eyes (1984)

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Every object, the old man had said, is but an interpretation of every other object. There is no sure knowledge, only endless process.

Green Eyes (1984)

All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end.

“Find your own answers, your own salvation. If you can’t do that,” said Donnell, “then to Hell with you.”

Green Eyes (1984)

Everything I've ever known has been no more than a powerful conviction.

A Walk in the Garden (2003)

I yearned for that future. I wanted to live in the illusion that persuades us that true-life experience can be obtained on the Internet.

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