Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
THOMAS PYNCHONThrough the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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What 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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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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?
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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