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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Thomas Pynchon
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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Essayist
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Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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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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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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The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.
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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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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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The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the worst. Light in his dreams, was always hope: the basic, moral hope. As the contacts break helically away, hope turns to darkness, and the glassblower wakes sharply tonight crying, Who? Who?
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which prehistoric wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.
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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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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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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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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’…but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.
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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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My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.
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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.
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