Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
THOMAS PYNCHONReal 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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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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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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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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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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