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THOMAS PYNCHONEvery weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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 sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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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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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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All variables are independent.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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If 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.
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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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