Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
THOMAS PYNCHONIt takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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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 takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible 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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