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.
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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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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All variables are independent.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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