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.
THOMAS PYNCHONDespair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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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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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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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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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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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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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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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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All variables are independent.
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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