Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
THOMAS PYNCHONIdle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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.
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.
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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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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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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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