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.
THOMAS PYNCHONBut 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.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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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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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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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Information. 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?
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Shall I project a world?
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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 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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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