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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.

— Lucius Shepard

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

Green Eyes (1984)

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The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

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If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth, then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world.

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