Tade Thompson Quotes

#1. This is a psychofield, a thoughtspace, essentially unstable. While most people conceptualise thinking as this straightforward linear thing, I see ideas spreading out into alternatives before one is selected. In this place every notion can potentially become reality.

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#2. We read classics to flood the xenosphere with irrelevant words and thoughts, a firewall of knowledge that even makes its way to the subconscious of the customer.

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#3. Maybe humankind was meant to be sick from time to time. Maybe there is something to be learned from illness.

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#4. I can't,' I say.
Her mind closes like a shutter, with finality.
I wish, at that moment, that I had said something else.

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#5. A washing machine repairman dying of laryngeal cancer had only one recurring thought: There is no excuse for making an angel cry.

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#6. It is a certainty, not just a conviction, the way believing in God is a conviction, but believing in gravity is a certainty.

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#7. We are all part machine, Kaaro. Your phone is a polymer under the skin of your hand. You have a locator chip in your head.

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#8. What's a quantum extrapolator?' I ask.
'You are,

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#9. The Yoruba say 'o d'oju ala' when someone dies. I will see you in dreams.

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#10. I let go of the tenuous control I had and scream into the void. Without lungs you can scream forever, and I do.

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#11. Oyin Da's mind is as elegant as a French horn, thoughts moving in whorls and evoking fresh mint leaves.

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#12. You are not a sensitive and will never experience this, but raw data surges, blunt data with errors which are slowly refined like the process of chiselling out a sculpture from a block of marble.

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#13. ...even the Gujarat-bot dreams of electric sheep.

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