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.
THOMAS PYNCHONAll 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.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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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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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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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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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 is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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