"this is america, you live in it, you……" — Thomas Pynchon
"this is america, you live in it, you let it happen. let it unfurl."
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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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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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