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?
THOMAS PYNCHONHe decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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