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• Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Greed, Abuse, Power Of Love

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• Length is usually intensity.
  Not time.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Intensity, Length

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• What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.

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  Song, Differences, Records

  Thomas Pynchon (2015). “Inherent Vice”, p.334, Random House

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• You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

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  May, Masters, Creatures

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.187, Penguin

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• Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.

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  Teamwork, Responsibility, Way

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.40, Penguin

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• this is america, you live in it, you let it happen. let it unfurl.

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  America, Happens

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.76, Penguin

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• So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.

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  Dream, Memories, Loss

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.179, Penguin

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• If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?

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  Life, Death, Science

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Vineland”, p.63, Penguin

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• Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.

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  Prayer, Fall, Godly

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.219, Penguin

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• It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

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  Writing, Rooms, Desks

  "V". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1963.

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• Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.

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  Kitchen, Too Much, Garlic

  Thomas Pynchon (2013). “Bleeding Edge: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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• There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

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  Differences, Chance, Behavior

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.253, Penguin

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• But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn't felt it go away, as if he'd known the best moment to let go.

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  Letting Go, Hands, Going Away

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.64, Penguin

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• Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.

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  Government, Curiosity, Desire

  "Mason & Dixon". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1997.

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• What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside hours of life of the rocket capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think.

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  Thinking, Rockets, Chance

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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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• 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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• Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

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  Machines, Done, Information

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

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• Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.

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  Funny, Beer, Air

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.240, Penguin

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• My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

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  Belief, Recluse, Journalist

  Phone call to CNN, June 5, 1997.

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• There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

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  Sentimental, Surrealist

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.541, Penguin

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

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  Statistician

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• Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.

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  Book, Invisible, Familiarity

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• Right and left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future.

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  Past, Violence, Affair

  Thomas Pynchon (1966). “V.: A Novel”

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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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