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“I could sell you sorry fuckers anything,” he repeated, “as long as it had a bright package and was wrapped around a chewy nugget of fear. I could be your green-eyed king. But it would bore me to be the salvation of cattle like you.

— 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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