Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Shall I project a world?
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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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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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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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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