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Thomas Pynchon4 quotes
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. — Thomas Pynchon · 1973Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon · 1973All 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 · 1973There 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 · 1973