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?
THOMAS PYNCHONLet me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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.
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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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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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