Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
THOMAS PYNCHONAll investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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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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If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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