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All variables are independent.
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Independent One Liner Variable
Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Dreams Essence Stupidity
Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Intense Time
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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Afraid Death Himself Human Land Live Lonely Sea
Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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Color Device Herself Lover Replacement
Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Computer Information Technology Transformation
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Born Decision Greatness Home Sick Suffering Temporary
Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Character Concept Death Page Writing Yourself
The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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Eyes Head Reality Universe Visible
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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Accident Lesson Life Man Sanity Time
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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Evil Goodness Meaning Myself People Sold Trust
A screaming comes across the sky.
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One Liner Scream Sky
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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Connection Dreams Movement Reality Togetherness
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Question Worry Wrong Yourself
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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Beginning Character Force Simplicity Try Wrong
Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Day Myself Peace Wake Up

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