Thomas Pynchon Quotes

We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal.

Thomas Pynchon

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InformationShareJustEraTerminal

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

SolitudeSocietyInspiredOnly

I love my childhood. It was a beautiful childhood.

Melania Trump

LoveBeautifulChildhoodI Love

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

Steve Kanaly

BusinessEnoughLongYouBigStay

I don't hear a lot about elected officials that are men talking about whether they smile a lot. My dad was in elected office my entire life. I don't remember many smiles, and nobody commented about it. He was serious about his job, and so am I.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

LifeSmileMenJobTalkingRemember

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

Roscoe Mitchell

NatureConfidentTryingYouDone

Prosperous communities are much better able to survive hurricanes or other natural disasters because they have greater resources, both public and private, to fall back upon.

Robert Zubrin

SurviveBetterFallBackResources

I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him.

Roberto Duran

BestMeSugarSaidHimBeat

The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

StarsRealYearsUpBigKeep

I had dreams about working for a big foreign company.

Roustam Tariko

DreamsCompanyBigWorkingForeign

I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

Mary Beard

PowerKitchenBlackRememberAngela

For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.

Liz Williams

ScienceArtSpiritualPracticeMe

I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.

Loretta Reynolds

JobThinkSheOutBecauseFemale

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