Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhat sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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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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