Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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