For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
THOMAS PYNCHONCan’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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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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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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