Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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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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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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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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