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> [“In Mexico City they somehow wandered into an exhibition of paintings by the beautiful Spanish exile Remedios Varo: in the central painting of a triptych, titled “Bordando el Manto Terrestre,” were a number of frail girls with heart-shaped faces, huge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/in-mexico-city-they-somehow-wandered-into-an-exhibition-of-paintings/)

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

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> [“Displaced Person’s Song If you see a train this evening, Far away, against the sky, Lie down in your woolen blanket, Sleep and let the train go by. Trains have called us, every midnight, From a thousand miles away, Trains…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/displaced-person-s-song-if-you-see-a-train-this-evening-far-away/)

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

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## Other authors on Thousand miles

## 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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