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Thomas Pynchon quotes

American Writer May 8, 1937

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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. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."
As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine. Thomas Pynchon
They'd never heard it that way. Went on warming their hands at an invisible fire. Oedipa, to retaliate, stopped believing in them. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop..."
The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger. Thomas Pynchon
The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will. 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
Thomas Pynchon quote: "He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for..."
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not..."
But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "She drove like one of the damned on holiday."
She drove like one of the damned on holiday. Thomas Pynchon
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up."
They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit,..."
She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit, to be avoided... Thomas Pynchon
If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "the one Word that rips apart the day..."
the one Word that rips apart the day... Thomas Pynchon
For there either was some Tristero beyond the appearance of the legacy America, or there was just America, and if there was just America then it seemed the only way she could continue, and manage to be at all relevant to it, was as an alien, unfurrowed, assumed full circle into some paranoia. Thomas Pynchon

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