And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into.
Малкълм замълча. Ани знаеше, че терапевтите използват такава техника - ако мълчат достатъчно дълго, накрая обектът на терапията ще изкрещи: Спах с баща ми!, и всички ще се разотидат доволни.
İki haftamı ülkenizi dolaşarak geçirdim -ülkeniz, çılgın zamanlar mıntıkası ve televizyonda sürekli bir biçimde ereksiyon sorununu tedavi eden ilaçların reklamının yapıldığı o ülkeyse eğer- bu dergi i...
When she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion... it was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully...
The truth was that these things matter, and it’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently, or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to e...
Partially satisfied by grazing on the first few pages of several books, and as a consequence, there are half-chewed novels lying all over the place. At least, I’m presuming they’re lying all over the...
My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
Contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.
A futballszurkoló természetes állapota a keserű csalódottság, függetlenül az eredménytől.
Zaid's finest moment, however, comes in his second paragraph, when he says that the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for mo...
You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish. You always seem to miss what...
Years later, Tony would discover that writers never felt they belonged anywhere. That was one of the reasons they became writers. It was strange, however, failing to belong even at a party full of out...
Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thou...
When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.
What did I think I was doing? What did she think she was doing? When I want to kiss people in that way now, with mouths and tongues and all that, it's because I want other things too: sex, Friday nigh...
What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People...
What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it.
Top five things I miss about Laura...Two: she's got character...she's loyal and honest, and she doesn't even take it out on people when she's having a bad day. That's character.
This, for the benefit of those with only a sketchy grasp of football tactics, was aDutch invention which necessitated flexibility from all the players on the pitch. Defenders were required to attack,...
There aren’t any buts, said Bill. That’s the whole point of being a writer, isn’t it? If I wanted buts, I’d go and work in a fucking but factory.