A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
THOMAS PYNCHONYou 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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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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All variables are independent.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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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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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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