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.
THOMAS PYNCHONYou may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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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.
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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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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All variables are independent.
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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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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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