Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
THOMAS PYNCHONPerhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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 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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