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It was the U.S.A., after all, and fear was in the air.
— Thomas Pynchon
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?
— Thomas Pynchon
She would give them order. She would create constellations.
— Thomas Pynchon
Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.
— Thomas Pynchon
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.
— John Larroquette
the one Word that rips apart the day...
— Thomas Pynchon
Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass.
— Thomas Pynchon
But don't they look like apes, now, fighting over a female? Even if the female is named Liberty.
— Thomas Pynchon
Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
— Thomas Pynchon
A screaming comes across the sky.
— Thomas Pynchon
Reader, she bit him.
— Thomas Pynchon
What? -- RICHARD M NIXON
— Thomas Pynchon
There was nobody who could help her. Nobody in the world. They were all on something, mad, possible enemies, dead.
— Thomas Pynchon
What's known as bleeding-edge technology," sez Lucas. "No proven use, high risk, something only early-adoption addicts feel comfortable with.
— Thomas Pynchon
As long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel would always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers.
— Thomas Pynchon
Time did not so much elapse as grow less relevant.
— Thomas Pynchon
If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.
— Thomas Pynchon
This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.
— Thomas Pynchon
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
— Thomas Pynchon
Zoyd was out of smokes.
— Thomas Pynchon
Could we have been so much in the midst of life? With such a sense of grand adventure about it all?
— Thomas Pynchon
UTSL, which Maxine at first takes for an anagram of LUST or possibly SLUT but later learns is Unix for Use The Source, Luke.
— Thomas Pynchon
Pointsman is finding it much easier to of late to slip into a l'etat c'est moi frame of mindwho else is doing anything? — Thomas Pynchon
Men had it so simple. When it wasn't about Sticking It In, it was about Having The Gun, a variation that allowed them to Stick It In from a distance.
— Thomas Pynchon
A pocket full of spare change and anger unlimited, what more does a 30-year-old innocent need to make his way in the city?
— Thomas Pynchon
Run away with me," said Roseman when the coffee came. "Where?" she asked. That shut him up.
— Thomas Pynchon
His workplace has become a rat's nest of empire building, turf defense, careerism, backstabbing, betrayal, and snitchcraft.
— Thomas Pynchon
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?
— Thomas Pynchon
Man, I want to die, is all," cried Ploy."Don't you know," said Dahoud, "that life is the most precious possession you have? — Thomas Pynchon
You can only cruse the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.
— Thomas Pynchon
You're so sick, Oedipa, she told herself, or the room, which knew.
— Thomas Pynchon
I'm a white guy listening to the Cure and thinking about Pynchon influences.
— Shane Warren Jones
My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, doesn't like to talk to reporters ...
— Thomas Pynchon
I am offended only by certain sorts of wallpaper
— Thomas Pynchon
Witnesses parade in, there is the travesty of a trial, and Ercole meets his end in a refreshingly simple mass stabbing.
— Thomas Pynchon
Lovely morning, World War Two.
— Thomas Pynchon
Now single up all lines!
— Thomas Pynchon
You see how many whips and things there are here. Our horses are very, very naughty.
— Thomas Pynchon
Latitudes and Departures
— Thomas Pynchon
People who dress up in bizarre costumes have a savoir-vivre - not to mention the sort of personality disorder - that he admires.
— Thomas Pynchon
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
— Thomas Pynchon
Not that the crew of the Toiletship itself were above a practical joke now and then.
— Thomas Pynchon
They're in love. Fuck the war.
— Thomas Pynchon
There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.
— Thomas Pynchon
These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one
— Thomas Pynchon
As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.
— Thomas Pynchon
Two of them there drinking red liquor like it was sadness medicine.
— Thomas Pynchon
Don't commit original sin. Try and let her just be.
— Thomas Pynchon
Length is usually intensity. Not time. — 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
I have look'd on Worlds far distant, their Beauty how pitiless.
— Thomas Pynchon
Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
— Thomas Pynchon
Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever.
— Thomas Pynchon
Not everybody benefits from a misspent youth.
— Thomas Pynchon
No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.
— Thomas Pynchon
Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted.
— Thomas Pynchon
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
— Thomas Pynchon
Never know when a gal might need a laser.
— Thomas Pynchon
Remember, she who keepeth the Books runneth the Business.
— Thomas Pynchon
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
— M.H. Abrams
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre (attributed to a French observer during the Charge of the Light
— Thomas Pynchon
Runners are bouncing up and down at the curb waiting for lights to change. Cops are in coffee shops dealing with bagel deficiencies.
— Thomas Pynchon
Hair and drug-use issues notwithstanding, I've never thought of you as any less than professional.
— Thomas Pynchon
Philosophick Work, to proceed at all smartly, wouldn't you agree, requires a controll'd working-space.
— Thomas Pynchon
Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.
— Thomas Pynchon
A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling. Beneath the surface, lies terror.
— Thomas Pynchon
Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.
— Thomas Pynchon
You never want to see kids repeat your own mistakes.
— Thomas Pynchon
Try to squeeze a watermelon into a small tumbler sometime when your reflexes are not so good. It is next to impossible.
— Thomas Pynchon
Keep cool but care
— Thomas Pynchon
Ruins he goes daily to look in are each a sermon on vanity.
— Thomas Pynchon
Why should things be easy to understand?
— Thomas Pynchon
Women could protest from now till piss flowed uphill, but the truth was, there wasn't one didn't secretly love a killer. And
— Thomas Pynchon
Same old Satanic pact, only more of it.
— Thomas Pynchon
They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
— Thomas Pynchon
Dick" Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, "Got to 'scram,
— Thomas Pynchon
Some of us are Outlaws, and some Trespassers upon the very World.
— Thomas Pynchon
Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own shit.
— Thomas Pynchon
They but appear a solemn People, - worshipping Laughter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly.
— Thomas Pynchon
Words are only an eye-twitch away from the things they stand for.
— Thomas Pynchon
In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?
— Thomas Pynchon
How much do you know of La Mayonnaise?" she inquired.He shrugged. "Maybe up to the part that goes 'Aux armes, citoyens' - — Thomas Pynchon
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
— Thomas Pynchon
Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.
— Thomas Pynchon
What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux.
— Thomas Pynchon
