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?
THOMAS PYNCHONIlls are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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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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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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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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