Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
THOMAS PYNCHONThere was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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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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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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All variables are independent.
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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