You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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 investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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Some 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.
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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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You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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