Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
THOMAS PYNCHONEvery weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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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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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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All variables are independent.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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