Length is usually intensity. Not time.
THOMAS PYNCHONIt takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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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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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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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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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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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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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.
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Shall I project a world?
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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