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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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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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My belief is that recluse is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, doesn't like to talk to reporters.
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Can't say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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