For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
THOMAS PYNCHONYou may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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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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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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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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