All variables are independent.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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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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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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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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