Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
THOMAS PYNCHONSomeday 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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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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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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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 nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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