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If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.Grant Morrison
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He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.Grant Morrison
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May in Varanasi. 25° and wet. It's like the 6th circle of the inferno here, Edith - where they flail the arses off the howling heretics and the men who fuck marine life etc. NATO's stomping on the Balkans while India and Pakistan threaten one another with nukes. "Dead From the Waist Down" on MTV. The humidity's making me horny and mad. I miss Robin. In his new book, Ken Wilbur calls it "skin hunger". I feel like I'm building up a charge. Monsoon's on its way. .Grant Morrison
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If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.Grant Morrison
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I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.Grant Morrison
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Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.Grant Morrison
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Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.Grant Morrison
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But a far more virulent strain survived. It's having sex with your thoughts. You'll give birth to increasingly more monstrous ideas.Grant Morrison
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We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.Grant Morrison
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It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.Grant Morrison
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The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.Grant Morrison
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It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?Grant Morrison
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Individual humans are not super, but the organism of which we are all tiny cellular parts is most certainly that. The life-form that's so big we forget it's there, that turns minerals on its planet into tools to touch the infinite black gap between stars or probe the obliterating pressures at the bottom of the oceans. We are already part of a superbeing, a monster, a god, a living process that is so all encompassing that it is to an individual life what water is to a fish. We are cells in the body of a three-billion-year-old life-form whose roots are in the Precambrian oceans and whose genetic wiring extends through the living structures of everything on the planet, connecting everything that has ever lived in one immense nervous system. .Grant Morrison
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No matter how shitty things are, you can always get a song out of it.Grant Morrison
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Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.Grant Morrison
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So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.Grant Morrison
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Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.Grant Morrison
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I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanityGrant Morrison
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Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over. Kill the gods first, slaughter the sacred animals, rewrite the mythologies, and build roads through the holy places. Do all this and watch the people decline. Without souls, they soon die, leaving dead shells, zombie cultures, shambling aimlessly towards oblivion.Grant Morrison
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Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The JokerGrant Morrison
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Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.Grant Morrison
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One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.Grant Morrison
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Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.Grant Morrison
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To know that we are only angels weighed down by filth, free of guilt? The bacteria in our bellies are responsible for the farts which shame us, tiny monsters shitting in their billions all over our pure skin create the acid reek of "our" sweat. And Slade: when the "inner voices" tell us we're unworthy or instruct us to "love" and "hate, " despite our best instincts.. are these incessant distracting thoughts our own? Or do we only hear the voice of the eternal germ screaming in our heads? .Grant Morrison