"It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk……" — Thomas Pynchon

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

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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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