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What better way to keep people under your thumb? Make up some big enemy, justify everything as part of the war effort.

— Jonathan Lethem Amnesia Moon (1995)

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Feeling unique is what we all have in common, it’s the thing that’s always the same.

The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye (1996)

People believe what they need to believe.

The Arrest (2020)

He’s just a classic scapegoat, told people things they didn’t want to hear. There’s never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

Amnesia Moon (1995)

I’d joined the ever-growing category of things that look better when you leave the light off.

Gun, with Occasional Music (1994)

You consider yourself an outsider, a seeker of truth amidst lies, yet you’ve bought into the biggest lie that can be told. You snort it through your nose and let it run in your bloodstream.

Gun, with Occasional Music (1994)

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