For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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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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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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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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