What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
THOMAS PYNCHONOur history is an aggregate of last moments.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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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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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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