Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
THOMAS PYNCHONSomeday 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.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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