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.
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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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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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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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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 variables are independent.
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