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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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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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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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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