What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
THOMAS PYNCHONShe may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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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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Shall I project a world?
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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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