All variables are independent.
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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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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But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.
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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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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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