Shall I project a world?
THOMAS PYNCHONTime is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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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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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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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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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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