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.
THOMAS PYNCHONLet the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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All variables are independent.
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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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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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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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.
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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.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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 the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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