Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
THOMAS PYNCHONAll 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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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