For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
THOMAS PYNCHONIlls are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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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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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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Teamwork,” 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.
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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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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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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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