My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
THOMAS PYNCHONIt all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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All variables are independent.
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Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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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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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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