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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
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Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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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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Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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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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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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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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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
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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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