Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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?
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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 screaming comes across the sky.
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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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