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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

Thomas Pynchon

For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Fantasy Kind Vampire
Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Illusion Invisible Temporary Yourself
Shall I project a world?
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One Liner World
Why should things be easy to understand?
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Easy Philosophy Understand
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Behavior Belief Chance Difference God Luck Operation Purity
I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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Boy Dreams Himself Life Man Myself Old Thinking
A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Side Story Woman
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Emotion Realist Sentimental
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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Early Ignorance Life Ourselves Structure Trouble Writing
They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Let Go Planning Sleep
To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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Convince Difficult Growth Humanity Spiritual
Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Intense Time
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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Afraid Death Himself Human Land Live Lonely Sea
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Age Enemy Himself Man
Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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Connection Dreams Movement Reality Togetherness
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Despair Herself Sex Yourself

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

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