What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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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All variables are independent.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Shall I project a world?
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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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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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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?
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