Built-in Quotes - page 3
"We have sympathized with the misplaced obsessive emotionality you have thrown into your delusional activities.”
"What do you mean, ‘delusional'? I know what I'm doing!”
The priest shook his head gently. "Whatever you think is wrong. I suppose you feel that you live your own life and strive to achieve your goals?”
"Well, of course!”
"But that is not the case at all. Actually, you have no independent life of your own. You do not live, you are lived! You are a completely automatic mechanism with a built-in I-reflex. Your life has no meaning, since you are not even a person. You are nothing more than a short-lived, inconsistent, and accidental collection of tendencies. Your only possible relevance is as the unwitting vehicle for the purpose of bringing forth the Avatar.”.
Robert Sheckley
The thing is, I can't control that built-in bias because it's going to exist. What I can do is reflect the world through my very unique prism and perhaps people will be able to relate. I can't control how it's received, nor do I want to control how it's perceived. What I want is for people to go into the theatre and in some way their perception is shifted, so that if they do enter with their biases, perhaps they won't leave with them.
Lynn Nottage
