"What sort of an age is this where……" — Thomas Pynchon

"What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?"

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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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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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