All variables are independent.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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