All variables are independent.
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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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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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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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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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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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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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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What, 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.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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