Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Shall I project a world?
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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