Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
THOMAS PYNCHONThey plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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Shall I project a world?
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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