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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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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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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.
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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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Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no moments of truth. It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.
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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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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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Shall I project a world?
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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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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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Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate energy into one favored room of the Creation at the expense of everything else.
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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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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.
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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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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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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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Teamwork, Koteks snarled, is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
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