Why should things be easy to understand?
THOMAS PYNCHON
THOMAS PYNCHON
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon All variables are independent.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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 PynchonThomas Pynchon Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon 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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