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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More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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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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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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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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