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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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Shall I project a world?
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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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