Desks Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.”

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“How strange tonight, this city. As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to burst through.”

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“It was one of those great iron afternoons in London: the yellow sun being teased apart by a thoasand chimneys breathing, fawning upward without…

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“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,…

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“Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass.”

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“People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.”

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“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…

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

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“Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories…

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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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“remember didn't you sneak away from camp to have a moment alone with What you felt stirring across the land . . . it…

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“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…

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“She knew instinctively: he will be fine as the fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school who knows he will never stop…

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Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

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But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books…

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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition…

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