Shall I project a world?
THOMAS PYNCHON
THOMAS PYNCHON
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Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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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Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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