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.
THOMAS PYNCHONYou 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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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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