He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
THOMAS PYNCHONPerhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
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Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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All variables are independent.
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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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