To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Shall I project a world?
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