Why should things be easy to understand?
THOMAS PYNCHONMy belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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 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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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