Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
THOMAS PYNCHONPerhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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