Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
THOMAS PYNCHONFor every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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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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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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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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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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