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.
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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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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