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.
THOMAS PYNCHONA woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Shall I project a world?
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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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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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