He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
THOMAS PYNCHONShe thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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All variables are independent.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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