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“Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
― R.D. Ronald

“It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.”
― Craig Clevenger, Dermaphoria

“. . . motionless, finally, after how many hours, how many days, at a loss where to go. All directions leading to the same place anyway. Its own end.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Солнце на западе горячей золотой каплей стекало все ниже и ниже, нацелясь за порог мира. И вдруг стало ясно, что уже вечер и конец теплу и свету.”
― William Golding; introduction by E. M, Lord of the Flies

“The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.”
― Arthur Koestler

“Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.”
― Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man

“There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting death; and the other was that as long as you could still hear your heart beating, you had to keep fighting back.”
― Ryū Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

“Since an emotion's an announcement of value, in this society of the death (of values) emotions moved like zombies through humans.”
― Kathy Acker, My Mother: Demonology

“Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end.
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Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62”
― Craig Clevenger, Dermaphoria

“Time passes slowly, or too fast, or it makes no difference.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again

“A cegueira também é isto, viver num mundo onde se tenha acabado a esperança.”
― José Saramago

“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. You got that? And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look, and feel, like shit.”
― Martin Amis, London Fields

“If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it.”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.”
― Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker