All variables are independent.
THOMAS PYNCHONWhy should things be easy to understand?
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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 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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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Shall I project a world?
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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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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