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.
THOMAS PYNCHONTime is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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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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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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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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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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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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