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Can't say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.

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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Essayist
Novelist
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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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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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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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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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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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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My belief is that recluse is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, doesn't like to talk to reporters.
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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.
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Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.
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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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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?
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But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.
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But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).
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Shall I project a world?
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