All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
THOMAS PYNCHONShe may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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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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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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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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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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All variables are independent.
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If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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