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.
THOMAS PYNCHON
Someday 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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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 takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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