“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.” ThinkingDifferentChristianInterestEuropeKillingKilling Each Other Author:Thomas Pynchon
“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.” ThinkingKnowsWritingTroubleStageIgnoranceStructureScopeStages Of Life Book:Slow Learner Source: Slow Learner
“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.” ThinkingWellsMomentsHoursChanceAudienceParadoxRocketsSpectaclesAntagonist Author:Thomas Pynchon
“There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything.” IfsThinkingWayShouldStoriesLightHappensRememberSpiritualLanguageAgreeObviousCertaintyConsistentMapsStrongestEpisodesGeographyWishful ThinkingRemembers Everything Book:Against the Day Source: Against the Day
“She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’…but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.” ThinkingKnowsLoveMayLittlesMomentsBodyFacesNightSimpleBirdRomanticRainGrassLiving Things Book:Gravity's Rainbow Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“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.” ThinkingLongTwoCan DoDividedGeneral Public Author:Thomas Pynchon
