Yolande Sather > Yolande's Quotes

“In itself that music festival was nothing special, these music festivals in our country are all alike, performing a most useful function especially for all those people who are chained to their labors, year in and year out, so naturally everybody comes flocking to the two or three music festivals per year, with their actual and their so-called amusements and distractions, these affairs are called music festivals because unlike the usual so-called country fairs they feature a band, an enormous attraction to the populace, that's all it is, but the organizers know that they can draw a much larger crowd by calling it a music festival rather than a country fair, so it has become the custom to call these events music festivals even if they are nothing more than country fairs, everybody attends these music festivals which usually begin early on Saturday night and end late on Sunday morning.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Correction

“The reckoning what to do or abstain from in particular circumstances will constantly include a reference, implicit or explicit, to generalities. […] Because of it human conduct is not left to be distinguished from the behavior of other animals by the fact that in it calculation is used by which to ascertain the means to perfectly particular ends. The human wants things like health and happiness and science and fair repute and virtue and prosperity, he does not simply want, e.g., that such-and-such a thing should be in such-and-such a place at such-and-such a time.”
― G.E.M. Anscombe, The collected philosophical papers of G.E.M. Anscombe

“Running might take her forward, it could even take her home; but it couldn't take her back–not ten minutes, ten hours, not ten years or days. And that was tough, as Hely would say. Tough: since back was the way she wanted to go, since the past was the only place she wanted to be.”
― Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Pero después, cuando estoy en sus brazos, como ahora mismo, es como si estuviera atrapado en un torno. Tengo ganas de levantarme y salir a dar una vuelta. «Qué impaciente eres, Mark», me dice ella. «¿Por qué no te relajas nunca?» «Es que me apetece dar un paseíto.» «Pero si fuera hace un frío que pela.» «Aun así. Igual compro algo para hacer un revuelto luego.» «Pues vete tú», dice ella, medio soñando; afloja el abrazo, da media vuelta y procura volver a conciliar el sueño. Y yo me visto y salgo por la puerta. ¿Cómo le explicas a alguien a quien quieres que, a pesar de todo, necesitas más? ¿Cómo? Se supone que el amor contiene todas las respuestas, y que nos lo da todo. All you need is love. Pero eso es una puta mentira: yo necesito algo, pero no es amor.”
― Irvine Welsh, Skagboys

“What’s this for?’ I said. And this veck replied, interrupting his like song an instant, that it was to keep my gulliver still and make me look at the screen. ‘But,’ I said, ‘I want to look at the screen. I’ve been brought here to viddy films and viddy films I shall.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Just go on dancing with me like this forever, Garraty, and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoes on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“Sure, a man’s home is his castle, but if he shares it with a woman, he knows his rule is limited.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”
― William Golding