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.
THOMAS PYNCHONThe general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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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 variables are independent.
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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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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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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, 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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