"All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even……" — Thomas Pynchon
"All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all."
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99 Quotes by Thomas Pynchon
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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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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those…
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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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