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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.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Christian, Thinking, Europe

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

  Thomas Pynchon

  Cute, Character, Pages

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

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• A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later. With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." "I'd rather be loved," said Root. Mulciber shrugged. "You're young.

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  Roots, Why Not, Weapons

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.658, Penguin

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• Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.

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  Dream, Real, Flying

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.126, 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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• Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.

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  Book, Invisible, Familiarity

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• Ills are many, blessings few,
  but dreams tonight will shelter you.

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  Dream, Blessing, Tonight

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.166, Penguin

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• This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

  Thomas Pynchon

  Statistician

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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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• 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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• 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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• A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

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  Two Sides, Two, Half

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

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• If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.

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  America, Darkness, Towns

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Mason & Dixon”, p.432, 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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• Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Earth, Hieroglyphics, Paranoia

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.85, 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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• 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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• 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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• In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.

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  Men, Nuclear, Neutrons

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.187, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.

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  Miracle, World, Intrusion

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.60, Penguin

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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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