It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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All variables are independent.
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Shall I project a world?
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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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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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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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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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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