They'll say, 'He never recovered from that breakdown and this was the result. It had to be the breakdown--not even he was that dreadful a novelist.
The end is so immense, it is its own poetry. It requires little rhetoric. Just state it plainly.
Nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others
وكلما تغيرت قسمات وجهها، تغيّر جمالها. لم تكن فتاة جميلة واحدة، بل كانت خمسًا وعشرين فتاة جميلة مختلفة
É muito difícil ler os clássicos; logo a culpa é dos clássicos. Hoje o estudante faz valer a sua incapacidade como um privilégio. Eu não consigo aprender isto, portanto alguma coisa está errada nisto....
Je kunt alles doorstaan zei Phoebe, zelfs als het vertrouwen geschonden is, als het maar eerlijk wordt bekend. je wordt dan levenspartners op een andere manier, maar je kunt nog wel partners blijven....
You're our Marcel Proust, Mr. Zuckerman.Zuckerman laughed. It wasn't exactly how he saw it.
You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.
You know what I've come to realize about you kindly rich liberals who own the world? Nothing is further from your understanding than the nature of reality.
What he has instead of a being, I thought, is blandness- the guy's radiant with it. He has devised for himself and incognito, and the incognito has become him. Several times during the meal I didn't t...
What do you do with the kid who can't read? ...Well, what he did with the kid who couldn't read was to make her his mistress. What Farley did was to make her his punching bag. What the Cuban did was t...
We've sifted through the eight thousand, don't worry about that. And this is the one. This is the murder weapon, no doubt about it.Then the President has been murdered?I cant tell you that right now....
War with Canada was far less of an enigma to me than what Aunt Evelyn was going to use for a toilet during the night
To become a new being. To bifurcate. The drama that underlies America's story, the high drama that is upping and leaving-and the energy and cruelty that rapturous drive demands. —p. 342
They worship a Jew, do you know that, Alex? Their whole big-deal religion is based on worshiping someone who was an established Jew at that time. Now how do you like that for stupidity? How do you lik...
The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.
The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of us here grew up with...
The loveliest fairy tale of childhood is that everything happens in order.
Terrifying encounters with the end? I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five! The remote future will be time enough to anguish over the ultimate catastrophe!
So. Now you know the worst thing I have ever done. I fucked my own family's dinner.