Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf 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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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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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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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