What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
THOMAS PYNCHONIt all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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All variables are independent.
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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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