It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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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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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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 takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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