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.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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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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All variables are independent.
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