All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhat 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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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