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 PYNCHONYou 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.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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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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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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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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