My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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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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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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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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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