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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

Thomas Pynchon

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Abstract Fear Human Investigation Mortal Time True
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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Avoid Responsibility Society Symptom Team Word Work
Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Intense Time
Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Dreams Essence Stupidity
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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Comfortable Condition Connection Health Mental Religious Sick Worry
Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Book Reading Time Wasted Time Yourself
A screaming comes across the sky.
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One Liner Scream Sky
I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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Boy Dreams Himself Life Man Myself Old Thinking
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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Connection Dreams Movement Reality Togetherness
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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Freedom Identity Name Place Purpose Road
Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Choice Fame Myself Photography
A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Side Story Woman
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Age Enemy Himself Man
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Despair Herself Sex Yourself
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Born Decision Greatness Home Sick Suffering Temporary
For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Fantasy Kind Vampire

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

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