She 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.
THOMAS PYNCHONIf 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.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Shall I project a world?
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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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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All variables are independent.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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