Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
THOMAS PYNCHONYou 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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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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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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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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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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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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All variables are independent.
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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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