Shall I project a world?
THOMAS PYNCHONIdle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
More Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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Can’t say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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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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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
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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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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
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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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