If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
THOMAS PYNCHONFor every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Shall I project a world?
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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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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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