My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
THOMAS PYNCHONSome of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.
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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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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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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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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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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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