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  • #1
    “Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #2
    Philip K. Dick
    “Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron Prison, but set in the far future. So if you superimposed the past (ancient Rome) over the present (California in the twentieth century) and superimposed the far future world of The Android Cried Me a River over that, you got the Empire, as the supra- or trans-temporal constant. Everyone who had ever lived was literally surrounded by the iron walls of the prison; they were all inside it and none of them knew it.”
    Philip K. Dick, VALIS

  • #3
    Arthur Koestler
    “El odio, como el amor, solo florece donde hay algo en común, donde existe un común denominador.”
    Arthur Koestler, Memorias: Flecha en el azul / La escritura invisible

  • #4
    Boris Vian
    “През прозореца се виждаха дългите следи от сълзите на здрача по черните бузи на облаците.”
    Boris Vian, L'herbe rouge - roman / Les lurettes fourrées - nouvelles

  • #5
    Franz Kafka
    “It seems to be a fact that man, tortured by his demons, avenges himself blindly on his fellow-man.”
    Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

  • #6
    Poppy Z. Brite
    “So what do I do with the rest of my time? he thought. Live rent-free with my parents, write in my notebooks, go out dancing, catch a buzz, get laid? It doesn't sound so bad. But what if I only have, say, five more years to live?”
    Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse

  • #7
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and the way your tongue curved up to the long, lingering ‘l.’ Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die, now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #8
    Georges Bataille
    “Continuaba cuestionando los límites del mundo, al ver la miseria de quien con ellos se conforma, y no pude soportar por mucho tiempo lo fácil de la ficción: yo le exigía la realidad, me volví loco.

    Si mentía, me quedaba en el plano de la poesía, de una superación verbal del mundo. Si perseveraba en una denigración ciega del mundo, mi denigración era falsa (como la superación). En cierto modo, mi conformidad con el mundo se profundizaba. Pero al no poder mentir a sabiendas, me volví loco (capaz de ignorar la verdad). O al no saber ya, para mí solo, representar la comedia de un delirio, me volví loco pero interiormente: viví la experiencia de la noche.

    La poesía dio simplemente un giro: escapé por ella del mundo del discurso, que para mí se había convertido en el mundo natural, entré con ella en una especie de tumba donde la infinitud de lo posible nacía de la muerte del mundo lógico.

    Al morir la lógica, daba a luz locas riquezas. Pero lo posible evocado no es sino irreal, la muerte del mundo lógico es irreal, todo es turbio y huidizo en esta oscuridad relativa. Puedo burlarme de mí mismo y de los demás: ¡todo lo real carece de valor, todo valor es irreal! De allí esa facilidad y esa fatalidad de deslizamientos en los que ignoro si miento o estoy loco. La necesidad de la noche procede de esa situación desafortunada.

    La noche no podía sino desviarse de todo ello.

    El cuestionarlo todo nacía de la exasperación de un deseo, ¡que no podía abocar al vacío!

    El objeto de mi deseo era, en primer lugar, la ilusión y no pudo ser más que en segundo lugar el vacío de la desilusión.”
    Georges Bataille, Lo arcangélico y otros poemas

  • #9
    Émile Zola
    “Dígame si tengo que ponerme de rodillas para conmoverle el corazón.”
    Émile Zola

  • #10
    Italo Calvino
    “Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.”
    Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

  • #11
    Craig Clevenger
    “The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.”
    Craig Clevenger, Dermaphoria

  • #12
    Susan  Rowland
    “You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise.”
    [Anna] aimed her defiance at Mary.
    “And you? What’s your reason to hate me?”
    Caroline spoke quietly. “We nearly died — in the fire in those mountains and at the house when Ravi had a gun pointed at us.” Her eyes were full of tears. “The fire you set at The Old Hospital could have killed me as well as Janet and Agnes.”
    Anna muttered into the syrupy dregs of her tea. “Fire, you’re firing me?”
    Mary grimaced. There had been too much fire.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #13
    K.  Ritz
    “This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #14
    Louisa May Alcott
    “No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles...”
    Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

  • #15
    Cassandra Clare
    “Thank you,” Simon said. “It’s a joke, Isabelle. He’s the Count. He likes counting. You know. ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One chocolate chip cookie, two chocolate chip cookies, three chocolate chip cookies . . .’”

    There was a rush of cold air as the door of the restaurant opened, letting in another customer. Isabelle shivered and reached for her black silk scarf. “It’s not realistic.”

    “What would you prefer? ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers . . .”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

  • #16
    Roald Dahl
    “What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #17
    Boris Pasternak
    “Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.”
    Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

  • #18
    A.A. Milne
    “No one can tell me, Nobody knows, Where the wind comes from, Where the wind goes.”
    A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six Deluxe Edition



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