Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Shall I project a world?
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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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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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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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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