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“There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.”

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“Shall I project a world?”

Thomas Pynchon book The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

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

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“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.”

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“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.”

Thomas Pynchon book Inherent Vice

Source: Inherent Vice

“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.”

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.”

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“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.”

Thomas Pynchon book Inherent Vice

Source: Inherent Vice

“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.”

Thomas Pynchon book The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.”

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.”

Thomas Pynchon book The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“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.”

Thomas Pynchon book The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.”

Thomas Pynchon book V.

Source: V.

“What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?”

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“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.”

Thomas Pynchon

Source: Slow Learner: Early Stories