Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
THOMAS PYNCHONA woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Shall I project a world?
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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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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