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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
Statistician
Anyway
Spiritualist

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Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no moments of truth. It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.
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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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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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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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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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If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.
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I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.
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What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside hours of life of the rocket capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think.
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.
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Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.
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Can't say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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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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