She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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