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> [“She sank with an enormous sigh that carried all rigidity like a mythical fluid from her, down next to him; so weak she couldn't help him undress her; it took him 20 minutes, rolling, arranging her this way and that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/she-sank-with-an-enormous-sigh-that-carried-all-rigidity-like-a/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

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> [ \[Oedipa Maas\] awoke at last to find herself getting laid. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/oedipa-maas-awoke-at-last-to-find-herself-getting-laid/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

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## Other authors on Getting laid

## More by Thomas Pynchon

> [“How strange tonight, this city. As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to burst through.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/how-strange-tonight-this-city-as-if-something-trembled-below-its/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“It was one of those great iron afternoons in London: the yellow sun being teased apart by a thoasand chimneys breathing, fawning upward without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/it-was-one-of-those-great-iron-afternoons-in-london-the-yellow-sun/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Surely for as long as there have been nights as bad as this one---something to raise the possibility of another night that could actually,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/surely-for-as-long-as-there-have-been-nights-as-bad-as-this-one/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/death-glided-by-shadowless-among-the-empties-on-the-grass/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/people-read-what-news-they-wanted-to-and-each-accordingly-built-his/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Out of that night and day of unconditional wrath, folks would've expected to see any city, if it survived, all newly reborn, purified by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/out-of-that-night-and-day-of-unconditional-wrath-folks-would-ve/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“As spread thighs are to the libertine...so was the letter V to young Stencil.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/as-spread-thighs-are-to-the-libertine-so-was-the-letter-v-to-young/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/oedipa-wondered-whether-at-the-end-of-this-if-it-were-supposed-to-end/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/if-they-can-get-you-asking-the-wrong-questions-they-don-t-have-to/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“remember didn't you sneak away from camp to have a moment alone with What you felt stirring across the land . . . it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/remember-didn-t-you-sneak-away-from-camp-to-have-a-moment-alone-with/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Through rain...then through dreaming glass, green with the evening. And herself in chair, old-fashioned, bonneted, looking west over the deck of Earth, inferno red…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/through-rain-then-through-dreaming-glass-green-with-the-evening-and/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“She knew instinctively: he will be fine as the fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school who knows he will never stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/she-knew-instinctively-he-will-be-fine-as-the-fraternity-boy-just-out/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Lovely morning, World War Two.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/lovely-morning-world-war-two/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Listen to anything and take it apart again. Spectrum analysis, in my head. I can break down chords, and timbres, and words too into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/listen-to-anything-and-take-it-apart-again-spectrum-analysis-in-my/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [A screaming comes across the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/a-screaming-comes-across-the-sky/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

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