Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhat, 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.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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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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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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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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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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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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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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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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