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“Only priests and fools are fearless, and I’ve never been on the best of terms with God.”


“programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more.”
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“There is no use in trying to judge everything but the condition you are in right now. You are absolutely delusional if you think that you know anything right now.”
― CLOSURE
― CLOSURE

“if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.”
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“On Gay Street the traffic lights are stilled. The trolleyrails gleam in their beds and a late car passes with a long slish of tires. In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life’s other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.”
― Suttree
― Suttree

“Sometimes I do believe in predestination. I feel helpless to do anything but what I am compelled to do.”
― CLOSURE
― CLOSURE

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