Shall I project a world?
THOMAS PYNCHONEvery weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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All variables are independent.
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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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