Obi-Wan Kenobi once said ‘your eyes can deceive you, don’t trust them.’ It seems to be getting harder. Distinguishing reality from the illusions people make for us, or the ones we make for ourselves. I don’t know, maybe that’s part of the plan, to make me think I’m crazy…it’s working.

Huey Freeman

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Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.

David Foster Wallace

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We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!

Taylor Mali

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So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man.

Jorge Luis Borges

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As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

David Mitchell

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Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

Jean-François Lyotard

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What is that unforgettable line?

Samuel Beckett

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TV is an eraser.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

Lydia Davis

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