Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhat sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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Shall I project a world?
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All variables are independent.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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