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?
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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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