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Famous Thomas Pynchon Quotes
“Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.”
“this is america, you live in it, you let it happen. let it unfurl.”
“They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.”
“The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.”
“Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.”
“Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.”
“He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.”
“Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.”
“Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.”
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
“Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.”
“There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.”
“Can't say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.”
“Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.”
“For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross”
“Our history is an aggregate of last moments”
“Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.”
“Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.”
“Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.”
“Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.”