Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf 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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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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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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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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All variables are independent.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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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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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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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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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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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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