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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.

Thomas Pynchon

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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Early Ignorance Life Ourselves Structure Trouble Writing
You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Creature God Himself People Touch Yourself
Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Computer Information Technology Transformation
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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Freedom Identity Name Place Purpose Road
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Abstract Fear Human Investigation Mortal Time True
Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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History Moments Ourselves
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Abuse Greedy Love Machine Power Technology
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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Education Herself Rise See Structure Sun Thinking
A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Side Story Woman
Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Myself Weird World
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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Fantasy Feeling Hands Let Go Lost Moments
Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Change Enough Hairs Life Yourself
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Emotion Realist Sentimental
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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Blessing Desire Empty Man Woman
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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Convince Difficult Growth Humanity Spiritual
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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Accident Lesson Life Man Sanity Time

Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.

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