QUOTES by Thomas Pynchon
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Perhaps the only reason they survived, Stencil reasoned, was that they were not alone. God knew how many more there were with a hothouse sense of time, no knowledge of life, and at the mercy of Fortune.
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To those of us who survived [...], it also means that we have learned to stand outside our history and watch it, without feeling too much. A little schizoid.
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Mason glowers, shaking his head. "I've ascended, descended, even condescended, and the List's not ended,— but haven't yet trans-cended a blessed thing, thankee.
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[...] times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility.
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Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond “awesome” and “sucks”, which for a vast range of human endeavour, actually, is more than enough…
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1904 was the year the American Food and Drug people took the cocaine out of Coca-Cola, which gave us an alcoholic and death oriented generation of Yanks ideally equipped to fight WW II.
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Damn you all. You have no idea what you're heading into. This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and descend into Hell, and all history after that will belong properly to the history of Hell.
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What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux.
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And men of science,' cries dixon, 'may be but the simple tools of others, with no more idea of what they are about, than a hammer knows of a house.
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For me, Shambhala, you see, turned out to be not a goal but an absence. Not the discovery of a place but the act of leaving the futureless place where I was. And in the process I arrived at Constantinople.
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The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.” “Awesome.” “Maybe, but it’s code’s all it is.
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Is it just this miserable fucking city, too many faces, making us crazy? Are we seeing some wholesale return of the dead?” “You’d prefer retail?
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The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.
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...a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it...
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If the tower is everywhere and the knight of deliverance no proof against its magic,what else?
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Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate.
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My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.
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Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue known as Hungarian Coffee Shop
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She moved through it carrying her fat book, attracted, unsure, a stranger, wanting to feel relevant but knowing how much of a search among alternative universes it would take.
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Down the toilet, lookit me, What a silly thing ta do! Hope nobody takes a pee, Yippy dippy dippy doo . . .
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You can only cruise the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.
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Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted.
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Some would say eccentric. I would say stoned out of his fuckin mind, nothing personal.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.
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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?
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In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?
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Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them, iron and patient, with a look that says 'try to tickle me.
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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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