What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
THOMAS PYNCHONYou may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Shall I project a world?
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.
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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’ but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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