There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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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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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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Shall I project a world?
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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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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