Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
THOMAS PYNCHONLength is usually intensity. Not time.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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She 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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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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