Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.
This is the heart of it, the scared woman who does not want to go alone to the man any longer, because when she does, when she takes of her baggy dress, displaying to him rancid breasts each almost as...
Socioeconomic formations versus an officer’s heels on a parquet floor, which would I choose?
Bug, meanwhile, had learned at Marshtown that might made right, and he got older and paler, his head downcast like a nodding flower that expects itself to be cut at any moment.
Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information. I
Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.
Rising up, rising down! History shambles on! What are we left with? A few half-shattered Greek stelae; Trotsky's eyeglasses; Gandhi's native-spun cloth, Cortes' pieces of solid gold (extorted from the...
But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us…and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about us as such; from the cowardly cockroaches to the blind stolid ants they wanted only to be left al...
But the remarkable thing about the beetles was their sensitivity to all the grammar and directives and slogans and even unstated desires of the ant world, which they learned to manipulate. They first...
But illusions don’t die all at once—
But how could he explain anything to them, when they understood good but not goodness, strong but not strength, black but not blackness? Give us bread! the Savages cried. Heal us!They were frightened...
The times are new, but the informers are old.
Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.
Bones, murdered or merely perished, ought to stay silent. That's the law. But, quick and shrill as a violin-screech, they come back, to the terror of all who stand guilty of living, and then they danc...
What do you get when you cross a nymphomaniac with a kleptomaniac? A rapist, said Tyler.
Before [Hitler] slammed the door behind him, he needed there to be nothing left, not even the door itself.
At the time that he had seriously begun to consolidate his organization, Parker was working in a custom photo lab. The reader who is not much taken by audiovisual pastimes may have a deficient picture...
As the great Moltke used to say, Genius is diligence.
There was the biography of a Norwegian resistance fighter who swam through chilly oceans and got gangrene and wandered through I think it might have been Finland or Lapland in a sweet short summer and...
We all lived for money, and that is what we died for.
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