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Gravity's Rainbow Quotes
20 of the best book quotes from Gravity's Rainbow
01
“Scattered all over the Zone.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Tyrone Slothrop
character
human condition
ᐧ
scattering
concepts
02
“Death is a debt to nature due, Which I have paid, and so must you.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Tyrone Slothrop
character
facing death
ᐧ
debt
ᐧ
law of nature
ᐧ
death
concepts
03
“One of the sweetest fruits of victory, after sleep and looting, must be the chance to ignore no-parking signs.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Tyrone Slothrop
character
looting
ᐧ
chance
ᐧ
ignore
ᐧ
signs
ᐧ
sweetness
ᐧ
sleeping
ᐧ
victory
concepts
04
“Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Katje Borgesius
character
business
ᐧ
war
ᐧ
selling
ᐧ
buying things
ᐧ
purpose of war
concepts
05
“Perhaps we were meant to meet.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Katje Borgesius
character
fate
ᐧ
destiny
ᐧ
pretending
concepts
06
“AN ARMY OF LOVERS CAN BE BEATEN.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
lovers
ᐧ
beaten
ᐧ
army
ᐧ
war
concepts
07
“Everyone’s equal. Same chances of getting hit. Equal in the eyes of the rocket.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Jessica Swanlake
ᐧ
Roger Mexico
characters
everyone
ᐧ
eyes
ᐧ
being equals
ᐧ
chance
ᐧ
rockets
concepts
08
“Yet who can presume to say what the War wants, so vast and aloof it is... so absentee.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Roger Mexico
ᐧ
Jessica Swanlake
characters
presumption
ᐧ
wanting
ᐧ
vastness
ᐧ
absence
ᐧ
aloofness
ᐧ
war
concepts
09
“Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Tyrone Slothrop
character
death
ᐧ
poetry
ᐧ
stopping
ᐧ
kind
concepts
10
“A screaming comes across the sky.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
sky
ᐧ
noises
ᐧ
screaming
ᐧ
rockets
concepts
11
“Till the Light that hath brought the towers low find the last poor Pret’rite one.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
William Slothrop
character
light
ᐧ
religion
ᐧ
saving
concepts
12
“Up to a point he finds the agony delightful.
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Captain Blicero
character
war
ᐧ
delight
ᐧ
agony
ᐧ
nazis
concepts
13
“Their feelings about blackness were tied to feelings...about putrefaction and death.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Gavin Trefoil
character
war
ᐧ
darkness
ᐧ
feelings
ᐧ
death
concepts
14
“The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
diversions
ᐧ
death
ᐧ
nature
ᐧ
war
ᐧ
purpose
concepts
15
“But out here, down here among the people, the truer currencies come into being.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
reality
ᐧ
currencies
ᐧ
people
ᐧ
evils of the world
ᐧ
war
ᐧ
jews
concepts
16
“This is the War’s evensong, the War’s canonical hour, and the night is real.
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Roger Mexico
ᐧ
Jessica Swanlake
characters
war
ᐧ
religion
ᐧ
night
ᐧ
real
concepts
17
“It might almost—if one were paranoid enough—seem to be a collaboration here, between both sides of the Wall, matter and spirit.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Walter Rathenau
character
foreign ministers
ᐧ
war
ᐧ
collaboration
ᐧ
paranoia
ᐧ
nazis
concepts
18
“The people out here were meant to go down first. We’re expendable.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Edward W.A. "Ned" Pointsman
ᐧ
Thomas Gwenhidwy
characters
people
ᐧ
death
ᐧ
war
ᐧ
expendable
concepts
19
“A Rocket-cartel. A structure cutting across every agency human and paper that ever touched it.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Vaslav Tchitcherine
character
touches
ᐧ
human
ᐧ
rockets
ᐧ
agreements
ᐧ
vision
concepts
20
″[War] provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
battles
ᐧ
world
ᐧ
war
ᐧ
history
ᐧ
records
ᐧ
adults
ᐧ
children
ᐧ
violence
concepts
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Dumbledore
Becoming
The Hunger Games
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Handmaid's Tale
The Jungle Book
human condition
scattering
Tyrone Slothrop
facing death
debt
law of nature
death
looting
chance
ignore
signs
sweetness
sleeping
victory
business
war
selling
buying things
Katje Borgesius
purpose of war
fate
destiny
pretending
lovers
beaten
army
everyone
eyes
Jessica Swanlake
being equals
Roger Mexico
rockets
presumption
wanting
vastness
absence
aloofness
poetry
stopping
kind
sky
noises
screaming
light
religion
saving
William Slothrop
delight
agony
Captain Blicero
nazis
Gavin Trefoil
darkness
feelings
diversions
nature
purpose
reality
currencies
people
evils of the world
jews
night
real
foreign ministers
collaboration
paranoia
Walter Rathenau
Edward W.A. "Ned" Pointsman
Thomas Gwenhidwy
expendable
touches
human
agreements
vision
Vaslav Tchitcherine
battles
world
history
records
adults
children
violence
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