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  • #1
    Sam  West
    “hedonism and amorality. And remember, he who cannot give anything away, cannot feel anything either.”
    Sam West, Strange Flesh

  • #2
    Paul Theroux
    “We tolerate difference only when we don’t have to look at it or listen to it, as long as it doesn’t impact our lives.”
    Paul Theroux, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

  • #3
    John H. Cunningham
    “Without balls to drive brains, underachievers wear chains. Without brains to rein balls, overachievers hit walls.’ Floyd’s Law, a.k.a. the Balls/Brains or B/B”
    John H. Cunningham, Red Right Return

  • #4
    Bret Easton Ellis
    “Disappear here”
    Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

  • #5
    Bret Easton Ellis
    “Disappear Here.
    The syringe fills with blood.
    You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters.
    Wonder if he's for sale.
    People are afraid to merge. To merge.”
    Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

  • #6
    Bret Easton Ellis
    “Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing," I tell her.”
    Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

  • #7
    Roger Ebert
    “Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?”
    Roger Ebert

  • #8
    Richard Castle
    “I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?”
    Richard Castle, Heat Rises

  • #9
    John Lange
    “It is better to live rich than to die rich. SAMUEL JOHNSON”
    John Lange, Grave Descend

  • #10
    Don DeLillo
    “it's not the sex you think I've had. it's the sex i want. that's what you smell on me. because the more I look at you, the more A know about us both. And the more A want to have sex with you. because there's a certain kind of sex that has an element of cleansing. it's the antidote to disillusion. the counterpoison.”
    Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

  • #11
    Don DeLillo
    “Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.”
    Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis
    tags: city

  • #12
    Don DeLillo
    “Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.”
    Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

  • #13
    Fernando Pessoa
    “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
    Fernando Pessoa

  • #14
    Fernando Pessoa
    “We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #15
    Fernando Pessoa
    “I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #16
    Fernando Pessoa
    “Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #17
    Fernando Pessoa
    “Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”
    Fernando Pessoa, Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos: 1928-1935

  • #18
    Fernando Pessoa
    “To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #19
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

  • #20
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #21
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman

  • #22
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  • #23
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #24
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #25
    Hank Moody
    “When it comes to emotions, women know how to paint with the full set of oils, while men are busy doodling with crayons.”
    Hank Moody, God Hates Us All

  • #26
    Hank Moody
    “The person that I want to have everything to do with, wants nothing to do with me.”
    Hank Moody

  • #27
    Hank Moody
    “I’ve lost a lot of battles, but I’ve never lost sight of the war. My goal is to fight my way to a day when we’re old and gray and she looks at me and says ‘I’m glad you never gave up.’ Until then, I fight. No retreat, baby. No surrender.”
    Hank Moody

  • #28
    Haruki Murakami
    “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
    haruki murakami

  • #29
    Haruki Murakami
    “Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #30
    Haruki Murakami
    “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance



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