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Thomas Pynchon — Portrait after a picture by The Oysterette (Oyster Bay High School) (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Thomas Pynchon

American novelist

born 1937

7 quotes, most often on God.

A screaming comes across the sky.
Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Pt. 1 (First lines)
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
Against the Day (2006), p. 622
- Life & Death
- Time
History, the proverb says, is made at night. The European civil servant normally sleeps at night. What waits in his IN basket to confront him at nine in the morning is history.
V. (1963), Chapter 9, Part I (Mondaugen)
- History
Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
Phone call to CNN, reported in “Where’s Thomas Pynchon?”, CNN (June 5, 1997)
- Photography
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Pt. 3
- God
- Luck
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Pt. 4
- God
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Part 3, Proverbs for Paranoids
- Power
- Thinking

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