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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. — Thomas Pynchon

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow · 1973
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QuestionsQuestioning authorityThe manPolitics
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1973
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Thomas Pynchon
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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. Viking Press, 1973.

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