"It is simply wrong to begin with a……" — Thomas Pynchon
"It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it."
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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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Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But…
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If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could…
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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…
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but…
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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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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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