Thomas Pynchon

the one Word that rips apart the day...

— Thomas Pynchon

“ay jalisco, no te rejas”

— Thomas Pynchon

Length is usually intensity. Not time.

— Thomas Pynchon

“Lovely morning, World War Two.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Fickt nicht mit dem Raketemensch!”

— Thomas Pynchon

“DON'T EVER ANTAGONIZE THE HORN.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“WE AWAIT SILENT TRISTERO'S EMPIRE.”

— Thomas Pynchon

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

— Thomas Pynchon

“As spread thighs are to the libertine...so was the letter V to young Stencil.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Next worst thing to unrequited Love, isn't it? Insufficient hate.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever.”

— Thomas Pynchon

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

— Thomas Pynchon

“...Our beauty lies in this extended capacity for convolution.”

— Thomas Pynchon

Our history is an aggregate of last moments

— Thomas Pynchon

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

— Thomas Pynchon

“Pointsman is finding it much easier to of late to slip into a l'etat c'est moi frame of mind--who else is doing…

— Thomas Pynchon

“At the corner store they invaded a hot dog stand and drank pina colada to sober up. It did no good.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“She had heard all about excluded middles; they were bad shit, to be avoided; and how had it ever happened here, with…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.” “Awesome.” “Maybe, but it’s code’s all it…

— Thomas Pynchon

“You see how many whips and things there are here. Our horses are very, very naughty.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Was that how he'd died, she wondered, among dreams, crushed by the only ikon in the house?”

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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces…

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“The band played up and down valleys still in those days unknown except to a few real-estate visionaries, little crossroads places where…

— Thomas Pynchon

“he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made-that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall…

— Thomas Pynchon

The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Remember, God didn't say, 'I'm gonna make light now,' he said, 'Let there be light.' His first act was to allow light…

— Thomas Pynchon

“You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve…

— Thomas Pynchon

“he could still never accept the way each owner, each shadow, filed in only to exchange a dented, malfunctioning version of himself…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Time travel, as it turns out, is not for civilian tourists, you don't just climb into a machine, you have to do…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Before long, Maxine finds herself wandering around clicking on everything, faces, litter on the floor, labels on bottles behind the bar, after…

— Thomas Pynchon

“She could, at this stage of things, recognize signals like that, as the epileptic is said to—an odor, color, pure piercing grace…

— Thomas Pynchon

There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking… It is…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Sometimes things aren’t very clear, that’s all. Things look like they’re going against us, and though it always turns out fine at…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Acts have consequences, Dixon, they must. These Louts believe all's right now,-- that they are free to get on with Lives that…

— Thomas Pynchon

A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out…

— Thomas Pynchon

“If there is any political moral to be found in this world,” Stencil once wrote in his journal, “it is that we…

— Thomas Pynchon

“After the 11 September attack," March editorializes one morning, "amid all that chaos and confusion, a hole quietly opened up in American…

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“It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted…secretly, it…

— Thomas Pynchon