What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
THOMAS PYNCHONReal 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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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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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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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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