Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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All variables are independent.
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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