If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
THOMAS PYNCHONCan’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
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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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