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 investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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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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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Shall I project a world?
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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