A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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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Shall I project a world?
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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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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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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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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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All variables are independent.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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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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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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