It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
THOMAS PYNCHONTeamwork,” 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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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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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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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Shall I project a world?
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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