Robert Aickman quotes
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“When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.”
-- Robert AickmanSource : Robert Aickman (2001). “The collected strange stories”
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“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”
-- Robert AickmanSource : Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.204, Faber & Faber
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“It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely”
-- Robert AickmanSource : Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.16, Faber & Faber
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“After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.”
-- Robert AickmanSource : Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.201, Faber & Faber
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“Everything to do with time is hideous.”
-- Robert AickmanSource : Robert Aickman (2014). “Cold Hand in Mine”, p.203, Faber & Faber
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“In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, ***** mechanicus instead of ***** sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.”
-- Robert Aickman
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Source : "American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier".
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“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”
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“There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.”
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“He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.”
Source : Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.13, Univ of California Press
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