Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
THOMAS PYNCHON
Why should things be easy to understand?
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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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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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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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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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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All variables are independent.
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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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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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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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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
THOMAS PYNCHON