Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
THOMAS PYNCHONGet too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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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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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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