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.
THOMAS PYNCHON
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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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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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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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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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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