Thomas Pynchon on planning
Thomas Pynchon59 quotes“They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.”
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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 PynchonThomas Pynchon To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Length is usually intensity. Not time.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon A screaming comes across the sky.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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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