Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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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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Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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