Length is usually intensity. Not time.
THOMAS PYNCHONYou may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Shall I project a world?
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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All variables are independent.
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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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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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