Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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