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• All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

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  Time, Sophisticated, Mortality

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.653, Penguin

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• Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the worst. Light in his dreams, was always hope: the basic, moral hope. As the contacts break helically away, hope turns to darkness, and the glassblower wakes sharply tonight crying, "Who? Who?"

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  Dream, Night, Light

  "Gravity's Rainbow". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1973.

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• He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

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  Suffering, Born, Homesickness

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.96, Penguin

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• What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

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  Men, People, Evil

  Thomas Pynchon (2015). “Inherent Vice”, p.349, Random House

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• What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

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  Stars, Healing, Rainbow

  "Gravity's Rainbow". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1973.

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• So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.

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  Pain, Men, Dying

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.580, Penguin

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• Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

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  Form, Explosions, Miles

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.132, Penguin

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• Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

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  Earth, Hieroglyphics, Paranoia

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.85, Penguin

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• Shall I project a world?

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  World, Projects

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.41, Penguin

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• Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?

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  Real, Dope, Insane

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.203, Penguin

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• Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

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  Cute, Character, Pages

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Slow Learner”, p.10, Penguin

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• She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night.

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  Dream, Night, Law

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.55, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Atheist, Home, Broken

  FaceBook post by Thomas Pynchon from Nov 06, 2014

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• What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

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  Christian, Thinking, Europe

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• For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross

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  Vampire, Kind, Crosses

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.420, Penguin

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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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  Loneliness, Land, Dying

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.11, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Real, Struggle, Style

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• Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.

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  Let Me

  Phone call to CNN, June 5, 1997.

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• 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.

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  Religious, Long, Comforting

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.338, Penguin

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• I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

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  Dream, Men, Boys

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.43, Penguin

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• But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.

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  Home, Heart, Sleep

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.108, Penguin

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• Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

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  Despair, Relevance

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.54, Penguin

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• It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children...

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  Children, Believe, Moving

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.165, Penguin

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• Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?

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  Government, World, Narrative

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• I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.

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  Real, Fall, Mean

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