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Thomas Pynchon quotes

American Writer May 8, 1937

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Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society. Thomas Pynchon
The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "Oh, THE WORLD OVER THERE, it's. So hard to explain! Just-like,..."
Oh, THE WORLD OVER THERE, it's. So hard to explain! Just-like, a dream's-got, lost in yer brain! Thomas Pynchon
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them, iron..."
Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them, iron and patient, with a look that says try to tickle me. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one"
These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one Thomas Pynchon
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. Thomas Pynchon
In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which prehistoric wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the..."
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. Thomas Pynchon
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not. Thomas Pynchon
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 Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do"
Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "Though it is not often that death is so clearly told to fuck off."
Though it is not often that death is so clearly told to fuck off. Thomas Pynchon
If he is going into management, he writes. If he is an engineer or architect why he paints or sculpts. He will straddle the line, aware up to the point of knowing he is getting the worst of both worlds, but never stopping to wonder why there should ever be a line, or even if there is a line at all. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon quote: "Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue..."
Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue known as Hungarian Coffee Shop Thomas Pynchon

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