Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
THOMAS PYNCHONAll variables are independent.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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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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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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All variables are independent.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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