Shall I project a world?
THOMAS PYNCHONIf 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.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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