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Thomas Pynchon Inspirational Quotes (64)

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Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.
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Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.
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So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.
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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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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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But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.
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I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking by the sea, With someone else's paper words to say.... They took us at the gates of green return, Too lost by then to stop, and ask them why- Do children meet again? Does any trace remain, Along the superhighways of July?
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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My belief is that recluse is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, doesn't like to talk to reporters.
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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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All variables are independent.
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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.
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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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The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.
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