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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

As spread thighs are to the libertine ... so was the letter V to young Stencil. — 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

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

Neither of them had ever had much interest in breaking each other's heart. — 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

The casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike. — 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 mind
who 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

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ... — 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

Not the first time Doc had run into girl-of-his-dreams unavailability. — Thomas Pynchon

Now GE has connections with Siemens over here, they worked on the V-2 guidance, — 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

Hey, like Godzilla always sez to Mothra - why don't we go eat some place? — Thomas Pynchon

Length is usually intensity.
Not time. — Thomas Pynchon

Keep it bouncing," he'd told her once, "that's all the secret, keep it bouncing. — 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 don't do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe? — 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

She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit, to be avoided ... — Thomas Pynchon

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

Questions arose. Like, what in the fuck was going on here, basically. — 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

Just don't tell me you're in love, OK?"
"Sister, I ain't even in line. — 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

Together they are a long skin interface, flowing sweat, close as muscles and bones can press, hardly a word beyond her name, or his. — Thomas Pynchon

On the face of it," Vehi Fairfield said finally, "two separate worlds, each unaware of the other. But they always connect someplace. — Thomas Pynchon