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[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.

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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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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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Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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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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My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.
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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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