There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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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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You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Shall I project a world?
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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