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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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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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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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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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Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.
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Can't say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
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But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.
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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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Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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All variables are independent.
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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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.
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