Quotes by Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

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Two moral forces shaped how we think and live in this shining twentieth century: the Virgin, and the Dynamo. The Dynamo — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both. — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
In fact, although I am not aware of it (and I am never aware of it, no matter how many times I have the dream) her suici — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me. — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose sound has the shape of a soul. But perhaps it's not too late. Come w — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragme — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want. — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
In the middle of all the world's incessant noise, her message was music, and music was a thing that I'd mostly lived my — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
Like most modern people, we no longer bothered to make the distinction between events in real life and the dramas of fic — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonde — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possi — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you. — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gu — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
It is time to put down the pen; time to clear the throat. Speaking is a different thing altogether from writing. The spo — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
At any other time it's better. You can do the things you feel you should; you're an expert at going through the motions. — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
I truly do not know, and that unnameable feeling that comes with not knowing: it must be worse than grief. It must. — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
This had been happening more and more often: the two of us come upon each other by accident in the early hours of the mo — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers. — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me—I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of coura — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
That friend of hers has got to go, though. You're lucky you got stuck with that Dexter guy instead of — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion