Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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All variables are independent.
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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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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 it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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