He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhat sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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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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You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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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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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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