“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.”

— Thomas Pynchon , book The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 4

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American novelist 1937

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