She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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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 was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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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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You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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Shall I project a world?
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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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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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