Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
THOMAS PYNCHONLength is usually intensity. Not time.
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I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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