The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
THOMAS PYNCHONSome 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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Shall I project a world?
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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