All variables are independent.
THOMAS PYNCHONI 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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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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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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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Shall I project a world?
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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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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