"There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental…" — Thomas Pynchon

"There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist."

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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.
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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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