{"author":"Thomas Pynchon","author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon","total_quotes":71,"quotes":[{"text":"Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["journalism","new-york-city","new-york-times"],"id":442,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"One glance at any government budget anywhere in the world tells the story—the money is always in place, already allocated, the motive everywhere is fear, the more immediate the fear, the higher the multiples.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["capitalism","government"],"id":2787,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate. But they did not prosper... About all they did was persist.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["random","truth"],"id":23474,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"They're in love. Fuck the war.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["love","war"],"id":30278,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["assassination","deception","power"],"id":56197,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["homesickness","nostalgia"],"id":57969,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"Nobody wanted to hear about all the Preterite, the many God passes over when he chooses a few for salvation. William argued holiness for these 'second Sheep,' without whom there'd be no elect. You can bet the Elect in Boston were pissed off about that. And it got worse. William felt that what Jesus was for the elect, Judas Iscariot was for the Preterite. Everything in the Creation has its equal and opposite counterpart. How can Jesus be an exception? Could we feel for him anything but horror in the face of the unnatural, the extracreational? Well, if he is the son of man, and if what we feel is not horror but love, then we have to love Judas too. Right? How William avoided being burned for heresy, nobody knows.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["heresy","jesus","judas-iscariot","preterite"],"id":58344,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights – but before she turned away, he could swear he saw light falling on her face, the orange light just after sunset that catches a face turned to the west, watching the ocean for someone to come in on the last wave of the day, in to shore and safety.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["longing","love","romantic"],"id":75018,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light-years and double for sandals, Faust's kind (poets) are alone with the task of living in a universe of things which simply are, and cloaking that innate mindlessness with comfortable and pious metaphor so that the 'practical' half of humanity may continue in the Great Lie, confident that their machines, dwellings, streets and weather share the same human motives, personal traits and fits of contrariness as they.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["philosophy","postmodernism","true"],"id":79844,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"Look at it, every day more lusers than users, keyboards and screens turning into nothin but portals to Web sites for what Management wants everybody addicted to, shopping games, jerking off, streaming endless garbage-.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["internet","internet-addiction","streaming"],"id":91980,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":71,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}