Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
THOMAS PYNCHONCan’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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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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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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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All variables are independent.
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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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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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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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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