Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhat, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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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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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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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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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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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All variables are independent.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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