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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

Thomas Pynchon

Why should things be easy to understand?
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Easy Philosophy Understand
Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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History Moments Ourselves
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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Afraid Death Himself Human Land Live Lonely Sea
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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Beautiful Body Face Herself Light Live Moments Peace Simplicity Sun Thinking
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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Existence Fantasy Intrude Miracle Mission Peace Spiritual Time Touch World Yourself
All variables are independent.
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Independent One Liner Variable
Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Choice Fame Myself Photography
A screaming comes across the sky.
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One Liner Scream Sky
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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Color Device Herself Lover Replacement
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Confession Happiness Room Transformation Writing
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Question Worry Wrong Yourself
Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Computer Information Technology Transformation
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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Computer Creature Death Human Kind Live Mathematics Patten Record Representation
They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Let Go Planning Sleep
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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Fantasy Feeling Hands Let Go Lost Moments
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Age Enemy Himself Man

Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

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