All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhat are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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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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