Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
THOMAS PYNCHONFor every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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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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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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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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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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