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.
THOMAS PYNCHONInformation. 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?
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Shall I project a world?
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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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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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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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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.
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