He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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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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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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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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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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