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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.

Thomas Pynchon

A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Side Story Woman
Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Day Myself Peace Wake Up
They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Let Go Planning Sleep
Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Change Enough Hairs Life Yourself
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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Connection Dreams Movement Reality Togetherness
A screaming comes across the sky.
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One Liner Scream Sky
Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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Break Care Help Logic Public Yourself
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Emotion Realist Sentimental
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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Afraid Death Himself Human Land Live Lonely Sea
My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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Believe Code Journalist Media Myself Report Talk Word
Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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History Moments Ourselves
Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Computer Information Technology Transformation
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
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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Dreams Ghost Image Life Passage Past Space Word Yourself
Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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Color Device Herself Lover Replacement
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Age Enemy Himself Man

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