They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
THOMAS PYNCHONGet too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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All variables are independent.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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