Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhat 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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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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It 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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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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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If 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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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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All variables are independent.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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