Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
THOMAS PYNCHONIlls are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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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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Shall I project a world?
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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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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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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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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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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