Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
THOMAS PYNCHONShall I project a world?
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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All variables are independent.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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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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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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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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