Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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 may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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