Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
THOMAS PYNCHONInformation. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Shall I project a world?
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