Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
THOMAS PYNCHONShe 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.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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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.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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All variables are independent.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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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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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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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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