Samuel > Samuel's Quotes

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“When I returned from Paris, I dropped out of high school and went to work in Grosvenor Library, where I read work by James Baldwin. But it took years for me to discard the myths imposed upon me by an Anglocentric education and popular culture.”
― Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo

“Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.”
― George Eliot

“Directly after copulation, the devil's laughter is heard.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity