100 Notable Quotes By Thomas Pynchon Impassioned Readers
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. A recipient of MacArthur fellowship, he is renowned for his complex and dense form of fiction and non-fiction writings. His writings circumscribe a vast array of themes, genres and subjects, including, music, mathematics, history, and science. In 1973, he bagged in the ‘U.S National Book Award for Fiction,’ for ‘Gravity’s Rainbow.’ Some of his illustrious novels include ‘Inherent Vice,’ ‘V.,’ ‘Bleeding Edge,’ and ‘The Crying of Lot 49.’ Following is a collection of quotes Thomas Pynchon, which have been extracted from his novels, interviews, writings, books, articles, etc. Read through the compilation Thomas Pynchon quotes on poetry, literature, time, life, journalists, influence, men, peace, character, humanity, and more.
Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
They're in love. Fuck the war.
Why should things be easy to understand?
Keep cool but care
Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.
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.
A screaming comes across the sky.
Shall I project a world?
All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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.
If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
Though it is not often that death is so clearly told to fuck off.
Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.
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.
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow, V699
Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.
Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.
