If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
THOMAS PYNCHONBut 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.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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All variables are independent.
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Shall I project a world?
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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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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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
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