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Collected quotes from American novelist Thomas Pynchon.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.


A million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it.


Length is usually intensity. Not time.


Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.


All investigations of time, however sophisticated and abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.


Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.


What was “walking on water,” if it wasn’t Bible talk for surfing?


But remember that these are brains mostly ravaged by antisocial and mindless pleasures.


You can only cruise the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.


water rights ... all of that's ours, it's always been ours.


"but nowadays it's all you see anymore is...fuckin cop shows"


Earth has an immune system, too...like the oil industry.


“the one Word that rips apart the day...”


Fickt nicht mit dem Raketemensch!


Wars have a way of overriding the days just before them. In looking back, there is such noise and gravity. But we are conditioned to forget.


Nostalgia lurks, ready to ooze from ambush.


The towers were religious too. They stood for what this country worships above everything else, the market, always the holy fucking market.


I'm a member of the IA. That's Inamorati Anonymous. An inamorato is somebody in love. That's the worst addiction of all.


I apologize if I've interrupted some exceptionally demanding hippie task, like trying to remember where the glue is on the Zig-Zag paper.


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