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 PYNCHONReal flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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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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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 screaming comes across the sky.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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All variables are independent.
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