Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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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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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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