Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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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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All variables are independent.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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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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