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Thomas Pynchon quotes about lies

American Writer May 8, 1937

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That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert love in favor of work, abstraction, required pain, bitter death. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "...Our beauty lies in this extended capacity for convolution."
...Our beauty lies in this extended capacity for convolution. Thomas Pynchon
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from. The act of metaphor than was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside,... Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling. Beneath..."
A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling. Beneath the surface, lies terror. Thomas Pynchon

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