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.
THOMAS PYNCHONIt 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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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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