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Pynchon writes in long sighs.

“Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.”

“The repulsive feature of slavery is the thing, not its name.”

“To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags—that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it.”

Nobody told me Twain was the most based guy to ever live.

Paraphrasing this one: Some men are bound to make the world more convenient even if it means destroying it in the process.

“If our future journeys are to be little different from flashes of light, with no interim landscape and no interim thought, I think we will have lost the whole good of journeying and will have succumbed to the mere preoccupation with getting there.”

“…fraudulence has become a national virtue and is well thought of in many circles.”

“Justice will find a home where there is a synthesis of liberty and unity in a framework of government.”

“All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.”

“I know, too, that on some not too distant night, somewhere in a pond or ditch or low place, a frog will awake, raise his voice high in praise, and be joined by others. I will feel a whole lot better when I hear the frogs.”

“Perhaps success in the future will depend partly on our ability to generate cheap power, but I think it will depend to a greater extent on our ability to resist a technological formula that is sterile: peas without pageantry, corn without coon, knowledge without wisdom, kitchens without a warm stove.”

dry handjob from an older woman 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

“I’m naming them after the Beatles. The British rock group.”

I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you so much I hate this book it’s so awful I hate you I hate you I hate you

Andy Weir don’t write another book

Book version of lowering the rim and pretending you’re Lebron for hours.

Easily the whitest book ever written

Cut it out with the goddamn exclamation points

I’ve visualized putting a gun to the roof of my mouth every other page.

Mormon science fiction