You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
THOMAS PYNCHONTo have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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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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 variables are independent.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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