For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
THOMAS PYNCHONSomeday 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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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