"She thought of a sunrise over the library……" — Thomas Pynchon
"She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west."
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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 Cornell Quotes
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one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed…
— Roald Hoffmann
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the…
— Thomas Pynchon
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...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling,…
— Michael Pollan
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In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the…
— Hu Shih
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At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because…
— Catherine Hicks
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Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had…
— Vaclav Klaus
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell…
— Tea Obreht
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Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because…
— Shailene Woodley
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But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work,…
— Robert Jay Lifton
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I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to…
— Ally Carter
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In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something…
— Ricky Jay
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Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder…
— Bruce Dickinson
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