Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
THOMAS PYNCHONShe thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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