Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
THOMAS PYNCHONPerhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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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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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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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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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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.
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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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