She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
THOMAS PYNCHONTime is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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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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Why should things be easy to understand?
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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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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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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All variables are independent.
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Shall I project a world?
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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