All variables are independent.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf 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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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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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible 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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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