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.
THOMAS PYNCHONYou may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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