Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
THOMAS PYNCHONBehind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to 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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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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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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