All variables are independent.
THOMAS PYNCHONShall I project a world?
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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 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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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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The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible 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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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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