In chili’s hand were his car keys, Ray-bans and Marlboros, without which he wouldn't leave his bathroom. Chili drank only black coffee and neat Jack Daniel’s; his suits were Boss, his underwear Calvin...
He would enjoy women more, she had informed him, if he understood their clothes.
But Harry wondered if he might be getting too old for the dispiriting adventure that seemed to inevitably accompany the need for human contact.
Asentí con la cabeza. Al fin y al cabo asentir no puede considerarse exactamente una mentira, ¿no?
Ali isto tako sam i shvatio da prestupnistvo samo ucvrscuje pravila koja pokusava da prekrsi. Nista ne osnazuje normu kao odstupanje od nje.
Nos aferramos al pasado -dijo-, a lo antiguo, porque tenemos miedo. [...] Nuestras vidas se estancan, se vuelven rancias. Nos da miedo todo lo nuevo, todo cuanto podría ayudarnos a crecer, a cambiar.
Illegal drugs are better for you than the legal stuff. How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral, or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture?
The point is, Harry, if I’m not to find you abhorrent, there will have to be more reciprocity all round. Particularly from your side.
The interesting people you wanted to be with - their minds were unusual, you saw things freshly with them and all was not deadness and repetition.
Suddenly I shouted into the night air. 'Yes, yes, yes, it is true!And now the world had some tension in it; now it twanged and vibrated with meaning and possibility! 'Yes, yes, fucking yes!
Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.
For him, the writer should be the very devil, a disturber of dreams and wrecker of fatuous utopias, the bringer-in of reality, and rival of God in his wish to make worlds.
Erosova masinerija sastavlja i rastavlja, obnavlja u coveku zudnju za zivotom.
Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist.
Cuando hablo conmigo mismo, es con ella con quien hablo
Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.
But to be able to bear one's own mind, to wait while the inner storm of intolerable thoughts blows itself out, leaving one to contemplate the debris with some understanding--that is an enviable state...
At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins.
As I watched Jamila I thought what a terrific person she'd become. She was low today, and she was often scornful of me anyway, the supercilious bitch, but I couldn't help seeing that there was in her...
Ako pomislim što je pakao - to je kad si sam zauvijek u sobi 101 i nemaš što čitati osim njegovih (Orwellovih) knjiga.