"A Scanner Darkly" Quotes
A narcotics officer in the near future becomes addicted to the very drug he is supposed to be monitoring.
science fiction | 219 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The pain of doing nothing is greater than the pain of doing something poorly.
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.
You know what it's like when you make love, and you go, 'I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming'?
The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently.
I've learned to live with pain. I've learned to live without the drugs.
You can't change the way the world is, but by God, you can change the way you look at it.
The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
Everything is not going to be all right. It’s not going to be all right. Nothing is going to be all right. No one is going to be all right. It’s not going to be all right.
You are a freak. You have always been a freak. This is your heritage, your destiny.
