There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Shall I project a world?
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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