A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
THOMAS PYNCHONIdle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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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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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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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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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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Why should things be easy to understand?
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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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