Shall I project a world?
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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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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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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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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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All variables are independent.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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