We should torture language to tell the truth.
Was one of those. If you follow their rules, they make more rules. You have to fight people or you end up with nothing.
Through the familiar orbit east of Reno, the brothels and wrecking yards, the big puffing power plant and its cat’s cradle of coils and springs and fencing, an occasional freight train and the meander...
She always had that empty look. ... It's a particular blankness, and I've mostly seen it on billboards for so-called gentlemen's clubs. The convincing ones have that same empty look. Like they know ju...
When the revolution comes it won’t make any difference, Gloria said. They’ll have a special guillotine for girls like that. With an even rustier blade for the artists who ogle her.
Haberlerin özelliği bunların hiçbir zaman sizin başınıza gelmemesidir.
But since you bring it up, Didier, you know what I think of language? That it’s a fake horizon and there’s something else, a real truthful thing, but language is keeping us from it. And I think we sho...
The cause of whose tears... could not be found in the traces on her cheeks. ...even as he knew the source of her tears was endless. bottomless and endless and not to be found in their traces. p.194
I should get one of those T-shirts that says ORGASM DONOR, he said.
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...
Most unexpected was the sadness that followed on the heels of pleasure, like smoke from an extinguished candle.
The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.
All the talk of regret. They make you form your life around one thing, the thing you did, and you have to grow yourself from what cannot be undone: they want you to make something from nothing. They m...
She was going to drink after her shift was finished. That kind of drinking where you make a wilderness and tear a path in. You meet someone else there, deep in the woods. Go home together. Claw your w...
It wasn’t quite a romantic infatuation. There are levels of readiness. Young girls don’t entertain the idea of sex, their body and another’s together. That comes later, but there isn’t nothing before...
By caring just that much less than whatever you ante as indifference.
The rest of us lined up for debugging and muumuus.
The important matter of small-town hair p.17
If there was no imperative, it was not love.
Later, Giddle’s response when I told her I was in love: Oh God, I’m so sorry. Love is awful. It ruins every normal thing, everything but itself. It makes you crazy and for nothing, because it’s so dis...
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