He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
THOMAS PYNCHONIt all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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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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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Shall I project a world?
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