Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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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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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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All variables are independent.
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