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Thomas Pynchon Quotes

Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 8, 1937

Topics

Good Dedication Results Concrete

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.

I Am Roots Boy Forgotten West Still

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Andrei Sakharov

Strength Fast Belief Human Spirit

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

John Henrik Clarke

History Best Africa Left Been Much

Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.

Ann Kirkpatrick

Family Father Mother Myself Born Go

I'm not your run-of-the-mill scientist.

Love Brain Looks Way Shaped I Love

Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong.

You Wrong Know Need Right Anything

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.

Stellan Skarsgard

Beautiful Time Ugly Me Long Fast

I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.

Mind Privacy Some

If it wasn't for Mick, the group would've fallen apart a long time ago.

Time Long Long Time Group Apart

For a profession that holds dear both the ability to vivisect politicians in prose and the expectation that these carved-up subjects will not complain, the media is horribly thin-skinned and vengeance-seeking when on the receiving end of criticism.

Criticism End Media Expectation Will

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

Future Responsibility People Legacy

I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.

College Goal Out Engineer Cardio

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