Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
THOMAS PYNCHONLike so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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All variables are independent.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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