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.
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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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