Page 21 - Observations

Having inherited the fear of falling vertically through space, we’ve
invented a new one: horizontally through time.

Opportunity knocks on doors without locks.

Your government is defined by whether “corrupt official” is an
oxymoron or a redundancy.

The more others’ illusions are revealed, the more mine disappear.

Circus wagon, ice cream truck: all my senses are in luck.

A fool and his errand each other soon undo.

You can keep them guessing and keep them laughing—but you can’t
keep them waiting.

Can you cover your tracks with the remains of those you’ve
trampled?

In the treatment rooms of hell, patients await the ministrations of
misdiagnosis.

Off the tracks, the engine of progress is an engine of destruction.

Before Beethoven, instruments suggest sound effects through music;
after Beethoven, instruments suggest music through sound effects.

Clockwise and time foolish.

Feverish imagination infected with the germ of an idea needs the rest
cure.

Blind to the truth and blinded by it have the same result.

Being high-strung won’t get you hired for a high-wire act.

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