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.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhat, 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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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All variables are independent.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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