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Thomas Pynchon

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
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
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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Convince Difficult Growth Humanity Spiritual
Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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History Moments Ourselves
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Despair Herself Sex Yourself
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Emotion Realist Sentimental
If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
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Grief Mistake Offering Privacy Support World
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
Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Choice Fame Myself Photography
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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Evil Goodness Meaning Myself People Sold Trust
Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Intense Time
Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Myself Weird World
Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Computer Information Technology Transformation
You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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Existence Fantasy Intrude Miracle Mission Peace Spiritual Time Touch World Yourself
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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Early Ignorance Life Ourselves Structure Trouble Writing
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

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