Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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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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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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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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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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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your 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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Shall I project a world?
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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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