Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
THOMAS PYNCHONAll investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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