You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
THOMAS PYNCHONShe thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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