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“I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.”

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American contemporary novelist, known for his profound social insight and unique literary style. His works include 'The Corrections' and 'Freedom'. more

“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.”

Trying Dream Seems Given Existence Struggle Impossible Essence Relation Surprise Notion Incredibles Vain Subtle Sensations Absurdity Captured Revolt Epoch Bewilderment Heart Of Darkness

Author:Joseph Conrad

“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.”

Mean Real Matter Fall Worry Defined Data Consistent Delusion Falling Apart Psychiatrist Unreal Delusional Expediency

Author:Thomas Pynchon

“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.”

Real Force Struggle Clear Week Style Identity Waste Substance Gravity Submit Rockets Prehistoric

Author:Thomas Pynchon

“Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the worst. Light in his dreams, was always hope: the basic, moral hope. As the contacts break helically away, hope turns to darkness, and the glassblower wakes sharply tonight crying, "Who? Who?"”

Dream Light Night Turns Moral Break Darkness Air Worst Cry Contact Tonight

Author:Thomas Pynchon

“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.”

Made Real Lines Decision Chaos Manage Cooperation Whim Hallucinations Peeves

Author:Thomas Pynchon

“There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.”

Sentimental Surrealist

Book:Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.”

Men Pain Generations Dying Talent Willing Comfort Sells Silent Ugly Defined Useless Zone Terrified Shallow Faded Passivity

Book:Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.”

Sometimes Past Watches Rivers Alcohol Contemplating Floats

Book:Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

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