Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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

Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl."

Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"She had heard all about excluded middles; they were bad shit, to be avoided; and how had it ever happened here, with the chances once so good for diversity?"

Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49