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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.

Thomas Pynchon

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
The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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Eyes Head Reality Universe Visible
A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Side Story Woman
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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Afraid Belief Division People Public Science
Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Book Reading Time Wasted Time Yourself
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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Blessing Desire Empty Man Woman
Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Choice Fame Myself Photography
Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Dreams Essence Stupidity
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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Best Cooperation Decision Destruction Direction Illusion Management Power Reality Support
Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Computer Information Technology Transformation
I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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Boy Dreams Himself Life Man Myself Old Thinking
For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Fantasy Kind Vampire
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Emotion Realist Sentimental
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
Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Myself Weird World
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.
THOMAS PYNCHON

Beautiful Body Face Herself Light Live Moments Peace Simplicity Sun Thinking

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