There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
THOMAS PYNCHONAll variables are independent.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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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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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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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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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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