Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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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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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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 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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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