Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
THOMAS PYNCHONIt takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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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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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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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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