There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
THOMAS PYNCHONIdle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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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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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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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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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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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 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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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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