Michael Palmer Quotes

#1. In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural
the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

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#2. You mean that's your idea of desire, with all those commas?

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#3. might have been teleported to the

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#4. I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.'

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#5. an occasional birthday dinner, and of course Marathon

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#6. It seemed to me that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing, and I never got tired of it.

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#7. You must have me confused with myself

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#8. And you Mr. Ground-of-Wheat, Mr. Text, Mr. Is-Was,
can you calculate the ratio between wire and window . . .

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#9. country highway. He sensed that he was

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#10. Remember, your dad loves you and he always wanted more for you than he ever wanted for himself. And if he pushes your buttons, just tell yourself that he's a master at doing that because he's the one who installed them in the first place.

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#11. Aygi Cycle (4)

Coarse hawthorn
beloved uncle's
memory entwined

among its
gnarled and
armored limbs

copy of
Lolita by
his deathbed

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#12. His memory is perfectly clear

and serves no good, no purpose
at all. He has seen things before

(the fly in the bottle,
the indeterminate will).

Santa Muerte, Saint Death,
we pray to you to swallow our breath.

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#13. The only entitlement guaranteed should be the fruits of one's own labor.

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#14. Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.

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#15. Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

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#16. When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

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#17. Data is just like crude. It's valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc., to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.

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#18. You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.

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#19. a heavy, hooded wool

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