Length is usually intensity. Not time.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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All variables are independent.
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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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