Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Thomas Pynchon Quotes: I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
         

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.


Thomas Pynchon
Check all other quotes by Thomas Pynchon

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Thomas Pynchon Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Tue. 05 Nov. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/I-was-dreaming-about-my-grandfather-A-1109358>.





Check out


Other quotes of Thomas Pynchon


If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.



Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.



Why should things be easy to understand?

Why should things be easy to understand?



Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.



Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.



Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.



A screaming comes across the sky.

A screaming comes across the sky.


sky


The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.



It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.



Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.





Other quotes you may like


If we know the good we ought to do, but fail to act, we sin.

If we know the good we ought to do, but fail to act, we sin.



Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.



I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.



I remember being absolutely rocked to my core by how profoundly I could love another human being.

I remember being absolutely rocked to my core by how profoundly I could love another human being.



A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.



Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.

Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.



What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?

What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?



I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'

I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'



Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.



If the NAACP were to impose a control of something towards all, then I would staunchly oppose it.

If the NAACP were to impose a control of something towards all, then I would staunchly oppose it.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.". Author of this quote is Thomas Pynchon. This quote is about boys, old man, my grandfather, dream, men, life,.