It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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All variables are independent.
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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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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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