What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
THOMAS PYNCHONWhat sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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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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The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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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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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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