Thomas Pynchon quote: "Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered."

Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, en...
THOMAS PYNCHON

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

Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we...
THOMAS PYNCHON

How strange tonight, this city. As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to burst through...
THOMAS PYNCHON

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?
THOMAS PYNCHON

There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ul...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a fr...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Why should things be easy to understand?
THOMAS PYNCHON

She would give them order. She would create constellations
THOMAS PYNCHON

Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right: you can never have too much.
THOMAS PYNCHON

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime a...
THOMAS PYNCHON

It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someda...
THOMAS PYNCHON

As the day light left the city that night, the streetlamps were not up to anything like their usual ...
THOMAS PYNCHON

A screaming comes across the sky.
THOMAS PYNCHON

Lovely morning, World War Two.
THOMAS PYNCHON

Perhaps the only reason they survived, Stencil reasoned, was that they were not alone. God knew how ...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
THOMAS PYNCHON

While nobles are crying in their nights' chains, the squires sing. The terrible politics of the Grai...
THOMAS PYNCHON

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

Maxine recoils, only partly out of the classic accountant's allergy to real folding money
THOMAS PYNCHON

Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneaker and big cowboy hat, h...
THOMAS PYNCHON

She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen...
THOMAS PYNCHON

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance
THOMAS PYNCHON

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled...
THOMAS PYNCHON

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THOMAS PYNCHON

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.
THOMAS PYNCHON

What of Thought? The Crew had developed a kind of shorthand whereby they could set forth any visions...
THOMAS PYNCHON

A city uninhabited is different. Different from what a "normal" observer, straggling in the dark - t...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Could we have been so much in the midst of life? With such a sense of grand adventure about it all?
THOMAS PYNCHON

If there is any political moral to be found in this world,” Stencil once wrote in his journal, “...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Ten million dead. Gas. Passchendaele. Let that be now a large figure, now a chemical formula, now an...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Time of course has showed the question up in all its young illogic. We can justify any apologia simp...
THOMAS PYNCHON

He had decided long ago that no Situation had any objective reality: it only existed in the minds of...
THOMAS PYNCHON

A phrase (it often happened when he was exhausted) kept cycling round and round, preconsicously, jus...
THOMAS PYNCHON

You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic.
THOMAS PYNCHON

Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the gut...
THOMAS PYNCHON

the only way clear of the cool/crazy flipflop was obviously slow, frustrating and hard work. Love wi...
THOMAS PYNCHON

A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
THOMAS PYNCHON

He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women with...
THOMAS PYNCHON

A schlemihl is a schlemihl. What can you "make" out of one? What can one make out of himself? You re...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue known as Hungarian Coffee Shop
THOMAS PYNCHON

She drove like one of the damned on holiday.
THOMAS PYNCHON

Man, I want to die, is all,' cried Ploy.
'Don't you know,' said Dahoud, 'that life is the most ...
THOMAS PYNCHON

For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inesca...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes ...
THOMAS PYNCHON

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
THOMAS PYNCHON

Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if...
THOMAS PYNCHON

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
THOMAS PYNCHON

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this ...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.
THOMAS PYNCHON

I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the vir...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Keep cool but care
THOMAS PYNCHON

Out of that night and day of unconditional wrath, folks would've expected to see any city, if it sur...
THOMAS PYNCHON

They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative st...
THOMAS PYNCHON

One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly ...
THOMAS PYNCHON

It's a dangerous game Cherrycoke's playing here. Often he thinks the sheer volume of information pou...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Pirate and Osbie Feel are leaning on their roof-ledge, a magnificent sunset across and up the windin...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Tito snored away on the other bed. Out there, all around them to the last fringes of occupancy, were...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
THOMAS PYNCHON

'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk ...
THOMAS PYNCHON

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.
THOMAS PYNCHON

But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, ...
THOMAS PYNCHON

If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about a...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--ha...
THOMAS PYNCHON

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental h...
THOMAS PYNCHON

What more do they want? She asks this seriously, as if there's a real conversion factor between info...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Jeremy will take her like the Angel itself, in his joyless weasel-worded come-along, and Roger will ...
THOMAS PYNCHON

The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, i...
THOMAS PYNCHON

The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.
THOMAS PYNCHON

I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusion...
THOMAS PYNCHON

But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of ...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Fickt nicht mit dem Raketemensch!
THOMAS PYNCHON

Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.
THOMAS PYNCHON

I dream that I have found us both again,
With spring so many strangers' lives away,
And we...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Kekulé dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the dreaming Serpent which surro...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-pol...
THOMAS PYNCHON

So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zo...
THOMAS PYNCHON

She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’…but he could never tel...
THOMAS PYNCHON

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless ...
THOMAS PYNCHON

If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti...
THOMAS PYNCHON

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
THOMAS PYNCHON

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
THOMAS PYNCHON

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
THOMAS PYNCHON

There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really ...
THOMAS PYNCHON

They're in love. Fuck the war.
THOMAS PYNCHON

There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of he...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Down the toilet, lookit me,
What a silly thing ta do!
Hope nobody takes a pee,
Yippy...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in t...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Nobody wanted to hear about all the Preterite, the many God passes over when he chooses a few for sa...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and government...
THOMAS PYNCHON

Now everybody-
THOMAS PYNCHON

Can I say something out loud? Is anybody listening?"
"Everybody. Nobody. Does it matter?
THOMAS PYNCHON

Are you the man who reads phone books?
THOMAS PYNCHON

I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that.
THOMAS PYNCHON

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
MICKALENE THOMAS

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie...
THOMAS HOBBES

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
THOMAS SOWELL

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES

Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE

These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES

Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
IRWIN THOMAS

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
IRWIN THOMAS

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS

I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS

I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS

We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS

We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS

It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS

My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS

The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS

Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS

You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
ISAIAH THOMAS

I love what I'm doing.
ISAIAH THOMAS

You have to develop your whole game to completion.
ISAIAH THOMAS

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
ISAIAH THOMAS

It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first....
ISAIAH THOMAS

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
ISAIAH THOMAS

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
THOMAS PAINE

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hen...
THOMAS SOWELL

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
THOMAS AQUINAS

I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS

I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ

The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
THOMAS PEREZ

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not,...
THOMAS SOWELL

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...
THOMAS HOBBES

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi...
THOMAS TRAHERNE

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

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