Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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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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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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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All variables are independent.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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 sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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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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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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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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