Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
THOMAS PYNCHONLife’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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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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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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