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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Half
Woman
Two
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What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside hours of life of the rocket capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think.
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[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.
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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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I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
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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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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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Shall I project a world?
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I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.
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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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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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Can't say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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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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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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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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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.
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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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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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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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