Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
THOMAS PYNCHONShall I project a world?
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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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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.
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All variables are independent.
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