Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
THOMAS PYNCHONEvery weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.
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Shall I project a world?
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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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