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.
THOMAS PYNCHONLet me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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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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All variables are independent.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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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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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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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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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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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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