For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere 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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Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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 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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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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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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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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