"Idle dreaming is often of the essence of…" — Thomas Pynchon

"Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do."

— Thomas Pynchon

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99 Quotes by Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon has 99 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But…
If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could…
Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell…
Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but…
The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those…
My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'.
Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ...
Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
Can't say it often enough—change your hair, change your life.
Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross

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Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream… — Neil Armstrong
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Learn from your dreams what you lack. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. — Roger Babson
True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have… — Richard Bach
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the… — Gaston Bachelard

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