A screaming comes across the sky.
THOMAS PYNCHONCan’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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