Thomas Pynchon Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Truth, War, Asking Questions

  Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

• He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself. A hundred miles of it, so suddenly. Solitude, even among the meshes of this war, can when it wishes so take him by the blind gut and touch, as now, possessively. Pirate's again some other side of a window, watching strangers eat breakfast.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Morning, War, Pirate

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.12, Penguin

• My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Mother, War, Doors

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.33, Penguin

• The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. 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

  Children, War, Eye

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

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