To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf 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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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Shall I project a world?
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All variables are independent.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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