Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
THOMAS PYNCHONSomeday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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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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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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 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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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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All variables are independent.
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