Length is usually intensity. Not time.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere 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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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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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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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