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.
THOMAS PYNCHONShall I project a world?
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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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 go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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All variables are independent.
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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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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Shall I project a world?
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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