I witnessed doom, though. It was around me. But at the time, I thought the bad luck of other people reaffirmed that I was doing okay.
Lonzi said the only thing worth loving was what was to come, and since what was to come was unforeseeable---only a cretin or a liar would try to predict the future---the future had to be lived now, in...
The important matter of small-town hair p.17
Seks is geen ruilhandel, het is een schenkeconomie.
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson.
To show you the uselessness of the truth, he said.
I was in an acute case of the present tense. P.30
You couldn’t hate someone who saw the world so differently.
I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into catego...
Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhyt...
Δεν τον είχα φιλήσει αλλά ήξερα ότι θα γινόταν κι αυτό, και το ήξερε ότι το ήξερα, και υπήρχε κάτι σαν αμοιβαία χαρά σε τούτη την ολίσθηση προς το αναπόδραστο, κι ας μην ήξερα το όνομά του ή αν ο,τιδή...
The three passions, Stanley had said to me that morning, are love, hate, and ignorance. Ignorance is the strongest.
If you’d showered you had a competitive edge at the Mars Room. If
When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless...
The point of the film....was about being a woman, about caring an not caring what happens to you. it was about not really caring.p.198
Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.
The rest of us lined up for debugging and muumuus.
Looking at someone who is looking at you was a drug as strong as any other.
I come from reckless, unsentimental people.
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