For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
THOMAS PYNCHONAll investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Shall I project a world?
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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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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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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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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