Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
THOMAS PYNCHONThe 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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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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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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All variables are independent.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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