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Gravity's Rainbow Quotes
20 of the best book quotes from Gravity's Rainbow
01
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“Everyone’s equal. Same chances of getting hit. Equal in the eyes of the rocket.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Roger Mexico
ᐧ
Jessica Swanlake
characters
eyes
ᐧ
chance
ᐧ
everyone
ᐧ
being equals
ᐧ
rockets
concepts
02
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“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
war
ᐧ
wanting
ᐧ
presumption
ᐧ
vastness
ᐧ
aloofness
ᐧ
absence
concepts
03
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“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
sleeping
ᐧ
sweetness
ᐧ
chance
ᐧ
victory
ᐧ
ignore
ᐧ
signs
ᐧ
looting
concepts
04
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“Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Katje Borgesius
character
war
ᐧ
business
ᐧ
purpose of war
ᐧ
buying things
ᐧ
selling
concepts
05
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“Perhaps we were meant to meet.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Katje Borgesius
character
fate
ᐧ
destiny
ᐧ
pretending
concepts
06
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“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
death
ᐧ
law of nature
ᐧ
facing death
ᐧ
debt
concepts
07
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“But out here, down here among the people, the truer currencies come into being.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
war
ᐧ
reality
ᐧ
people
ᐧ
jews
ᐧ
evils of the world
ᐧ
currencies
concepts
08
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“AN ARMY OF LOVERS CAN BE BEATEN.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
war
ᐧ
army
ᐧ
beaten
ᐧ
lovers
concepts
09
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“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
war
ᐧ
collaboration
ᐧ
paranoia
ᐧ
nazis
ᐧ
foreign ministers
concepts
10
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“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
kind
ᐧ
stopping
concepts
11
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“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
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“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
night
ᐧ
religion
ᐧ
real
concepts
13
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“The people out here were meant to go down first. We’re expendable.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Thomas Gwenhidwy
ᐧ
Edward W.A. "Ned" Pointsman
characters
death
ᐧ
war
ᐧ
people
ᐧ
expendable
concepts
14
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“A screaming comes across the sky.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
noises
ᐧ
sky
ᐧ
screaming
ᐧ
rockets
concepts
15
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“Their feelings about blackness were tied to feelings...about putrefaction and death.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Gavin Trefoil
character
death
ᐧ
war
ᐧ
feelings
ᐧ
darkness
concepts
16
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“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
death
ᐧ
war
ᐧ
nature
ᐧ
purpose
ᐧ
diversions
concepts
17
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“Scattered all over the Zone.”
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Tyrone Slothrop
character
human condition
ᐧ
scattering
concepts
18
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″[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
children
ᐧ
war
ᐧ
adults
ᐧ
violence
ᐧ
history
ᐧ
world
ᐧ
battles
ᐧ
records
concepts
19
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“Up to a point he finds the agony delightful.
Thomas Pynchon
author
Gravity's Rainbow
book
Captain Blicero
character
war
ᐧ
nazis
ᐧ
agony
ᐧ
delight
concepts
20
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“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
vision
ᐧ
touches
ᐧ
human
ᐧ
rockets
ᐧ
agreements
concepts
Recommended quote pages
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Becoming
The Hunger Games
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Handmaid's Tale
The Jungle Book
eyes
chance
everyone
being equals
Roger Mexico
Jessica Swanlake
rockets
war
wanting
presumption
vastness
aloofness
absence
sleeping
sweetness
victory
ignore
signs
Tyrone Slothrop
looting
business
purpose of war
buying things
Katje Borgesius
selling
fate
destiny
pretending
death
law of nature
facing death
debt
reality
people
jews
evils of the world
currencies
army
beaten
lovers
collaboration
paranoia
nazis
Walter Rathenau
foreign ministers
poetry
kind
stopping
light
religion
saving
William Slothrop
night
real
Thomas Gwenhidwy
Edward W.A. "Ned" Pointsman
expendable
noises
sky
screaming
feelings
darkness
Gavin Trefoil
nature
purpose
diversions
human condition
scattering
children
adults
violence
history
world
battles
records
agony
Captain Blicero
delight
vision
touches
human
Vaslav Tchitcherine
agreements
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