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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.
Thomas Pynchon
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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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