Length is usually intensity. Not time.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhy should things be easy to understand?
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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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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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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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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