If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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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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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Shall I project a world?
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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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 screaming comes across the sky.
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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.
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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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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.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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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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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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