There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
THOMAS PYNCHONIdle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
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Shall I project a world?
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.
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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.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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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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Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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