What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
THOMAS PYNCHONA screaming comes across the sky.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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All variables are independent.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to 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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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