She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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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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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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