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.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhy should things be easy to understand?
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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All variables are independent.
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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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All 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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