Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
THOMAS PYNCHONSomeday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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