A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible 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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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