Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
THOMAS PYNCHONIt 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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
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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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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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