All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
THOMAS PYNCHONIt takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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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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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All variables are independent.
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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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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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But 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.
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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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