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.
THOMAS PYNCHONIdle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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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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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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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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All variables are independent.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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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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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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I was dreaming about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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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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