
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”
The Moving Target (1949)
Source: The Drowning Pool
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”
“There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“"Well, wouldn't that be the ultimate cure?" Aira concluded cheerfully. "The cure for death?"”
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 32
I wrote that in the first few shook-up minutes after hearing the bulletin sandwiched in between Don and Phil Everly and surrounded by all manner of whoops and whistles coming out of an audio signal generator, like you are apt to hear on the provincial radio these days. But I don't think I'd take those words back.
The world is at fault, not because it is inherently good or bad or anything but what it is, but because it doesn't prepare us in anything but body to get along with.
Our souls it leaves to whatever obsolescences, bigotries, theories of education workable and un, parental wisdom or lack of it, happen to get in its more or less Brownian (your phrase) pilgrimage between the cord-cutting ceremony and the time they slide you down the chute into the oven, while the guy on the Wurlitzer plays Aba Daba Honeymoon because you had once told somebody it was the nadir of all American expression; only they didn't know what nadir meant but it must be good because of the vehemence with which you expressed yourself.
Letter to Jules Siegel, published in Cavalier magazine (August 1965); republished in "Pynchon notes 15" and " "The World is at Fault" http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_World_is_at_Fault at pynchonwiki.com http://pynchonwiki.com/
“Sole cure of wrong is silence.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 548 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.”
Source: The Angel's Game
First inaugural address (January 20, 1993), Washington, D.C.
1990s
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Ignorance is a cure for nothing.”