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.
THOMAS PYNCHONTeamwork,” 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.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts–census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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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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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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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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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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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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