A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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There 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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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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 me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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All variables are independent.
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