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This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Statistician

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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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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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Can't say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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Shall I project a world?
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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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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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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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But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.
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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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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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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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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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[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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