All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
THOMAS PYNCHONLet me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Shall I project a world?
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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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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