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.
THOMAS PYNCHONYou 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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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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