What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
THOMAS PYNCHONAll 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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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All variables are independent.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Shall I project a world?
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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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