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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Thomas Pynchon

Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
THOMAS PYNCHON

Break Care Help Logic Public Yourself
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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Accident Lesson Life Man Sanity Time
Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Illusion Invisible Temporary Yourself
Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Book Reading Time Wasted Time Yourself
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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Fantasy Feeling Hands Let Go Lost Moments
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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Freedom Identity Name Place Purpose Road
A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Side Story Woman
Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Choice Fame Myself Photography
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Age Enemy Himself Man
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Despair Herself Sex Yourself
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Behavior Belief Chance Difference God Luck Operation Purity
Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Change Enough Hairs Life Yourself
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 PYNCHON

Dreams Ghost Image Life Passage Past Space Word Yourself
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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Beginning Character Force Simplicity Try Wrong
All variables are independent.
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Independent One Liner Variable
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
THOMAS PYNCHON

Body God Healing Need Stars Terrorism

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

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