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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

Thomas Pynchon

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Character Concept Death Page Writing Yourself
Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Choice Fame Myself Photography
What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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Difference Notice Place Record Universe Yourself
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Behavior Belief Chance Difference God Luck Operation Purity
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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Evil Goodness Meaning Myself People Sold Trust
The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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Eyes Head Reality Universe Visible
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Question Worry Wrong Yourself
All variables are independent.
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Independent One Liner Variable
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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Avoid Responsibility Society Symptom Team Word Work
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Age Enemy Himself Man
Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Intense Time
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Emotion Realist Sentimental
For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Fantasy Kind Vampire
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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Color Device Herself Lover Replacement
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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Animal Break Freedom Healing Kind Loud Nature Plant Preserve Theory
Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Day Myself Peace Wake Up

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