He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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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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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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