History was repeating itself: the first time as farce, the second time as tragedy.
Here was an entry - a serious one - which he hadn't crossed out in years. He couldn't remember where it came from. He never recorded the writer or the source: he didn't want to be bullied by reputatio...
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
Реализм: Заяц бежит быстрее Черепахи. Намного быстрее. И еще он сообразительней. Поэтому он побеждает. Рано или поздно. ОК? Сентиментальный романтизм: Самодовольный заяц прикорнул у обочины, а нравств...
Someone who will manipulate your inner self while holding hers back from you.
Deliquescent.
Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
Who was it said that memory is what we thought we’d forgotten?
Vieni jausmai laiką pagreitina, kiti sulėtina, o kartais atrodo, kad jis dingsta - kol galop ateina akimirka, kai jis iš tiesų dingsta ir jau niekada nebesugrįžta
This ought to have given him a whole storetank of existential rage, but somehow it didn’t;
They say time finds you out, don’t they?
The notion of redefining the deity into something that works for you is grotesque.
Sleep democratizes fear. The terror of a lost shoe or a missed train are as great here as those of guerrilla attack or nuclear war.
Sad sex is the saddest sex of all.
People prefer to get what they want rather than what they deserve.
Never forget, the most vulnerable spot is down the middle.
My reading might be pointless in terms of the history of literary criticism; but it's not pointless in terms of pleasure.
Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.
Loši snovi ne daju ostatku života da ide dalje.