What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
THOMAS PYNCHONInformation. 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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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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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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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But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.
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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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