Thomas Pynchon Quotes
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
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Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!
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If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer…
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Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate…
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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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.
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My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'.
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Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ...
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Can't say it often enough—change your hair, change your life.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments
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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 west.
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Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But…
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MARG: You are so close.STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from…
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Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
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Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.
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Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
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