It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
THOMAS PYNCHONLet the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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