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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

Thomas Pynchon

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
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
They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Let Go Planning Sleep
Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Character Concept Death Page Writing Yourself
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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Grief Mistake Offering Privacy Support World
Shall I project a world?
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One Liner World
Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Myself Weird World
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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Computer Creature Death Human Kind Live Mathematics Patten Record Representation
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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Avoid Responsibility Society Symptom Team Word Work
You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Creature God Himself People Touch Yourself
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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Fantasy Feeling Hands Let Go Lost Moments
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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Evil Goodness Meaning Myself People Sold Trust
Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Intense Time
Why should things be easy to understand?
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Easy Philosophy Understand
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Despair Herself Sex Yourself

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