They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
THOMAS PYNCHONPerhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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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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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 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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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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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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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