Thomas Pynchon Short Quotes

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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.

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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

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Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass.

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She's almost got it; nearly understands his Poisson equation...

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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.

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

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This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.

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The man's thirst for guilt was insatiable as the desert's for water.

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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

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For a boy not getting any he had more woman problems than anybody he knew.

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My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

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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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Politics is a kind of engineering isn't it. With people as your raw material.

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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

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A million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it.

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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

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Yet who can presume to say what the war wants, so vast and aloof it is... so absentee.

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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

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Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

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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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"Run away with me," said Roseman when the coffee came.
"Where?" she asked. That shut him up.

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The only consolation he drew from the present chaos was that his theory managed to explain it.

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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.

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It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

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Merle's all-night illumination prolonged itself into an inescapable glow that began to keep him awake.

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