Fernando Tims > Fernando's Quotes

“Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.”
― Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

“Civilized my syphilised yarbles. Music always sort of sharpened me up, O my brothers, and made me like feel like old Bog himself, ready to make with the old donner and blitzen and have vecks and ptitsas creeching away in my ha ha power.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Am well. Thinking of you always. Love”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, thats all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen even loveless slavery, even war or death.”
― Albert Camus

“I don't think you really belong here, Aviger." Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly.

Aviger shrugged, and did not raise his eyes. "I don't think any of us do."

"The brave belong where they decide." Some harshness entered the Idiran's voice.”
― Iain Banks

“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what we are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others.”
― Iain Banks, Complicity

“something very unlikely happened which by sheer chance mattered more to him than anybody else it could have happened to.”
― Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory

“that single embodiment of a world crippled by its legacy of recent cruelties and a self-lacerating worship of the proceeds of selfishness and greed.”
― Iain Banks, Transition

“Don't judge your taco by its price”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“I blew the horn a few times, hoping to call up an iguana. Get the buggers moving. They were out there, I knew, in that goddamn sea of cactus--hunkered down, barely breathing, and every one of the stinking little bastards was loaded with deadly poison.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“-a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk of brain cells that otherwise would be giving you trouble overloading your thinking. New scenery continually erases what came before; memory is lost, shuffled, relabeled and forgotten. Gum is chewed; buttons are pushed; windows are lowered and opened. A fast moving car is the only place where you're legally allowed to not deal with your problems. It's enforced meditation and this is good.”
― Douglas Coupland

“Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.”
― Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us

“- Ah nivir bother asking ma father who ah kin shag, ah idly observe.
- Glad tae hear it, Sylvia says in clipped tones as Ali stifles a giggle.
- Me neither... groans Matty, -...unless it's muh ma.
- That's only good manners, ah shrugs.”
― Irvine Welsh, Skagboys

“The pit of melancholy was a bottomless one, and he was descending fast, falling further away from the good times. Such times often seemed tantalisingly within reach; he could see them, going on all around him. His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them”
― Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers

“I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs.”
― Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers

“There is music playing somewhere but I can't hear it.”
― Bret Easton Ellis

“A young girl, a freshman, I met in a bar in Cambridge my junior year at Harvard told me early one fall that “Life is full of endless possibilities.” I tried valiantly nog to choke on the beer nuts I was chewing while she gushed this kidney stone of wisdom, and I calmly washed them down with the rest of a Heineken, smiled and concentrated on the dart game that was going on in the corner. Needless to say, she did not live to see her sophomore year.That winter, her body was found floating in the Charles River, decapitated, her head hung from a tree on the bank, her hair knotted around a low-hanging branch, three miles away.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“suddenly I’m seized by a minor anxiety attack. There are too many fucking movies to choose from.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“The conversation follows its own rolling accord - no real structure or topic or internal logic or feeling; except, of course, for its own hidden, conspiratorial one. Just words, and like in a movie, but one that has been transcribed improperly, most of it overlaps.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“My nightly blood lust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“As I left, promising to mention her to my father, Olga said: "Now you can play hide-and-seek in the whole world.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Kindness of Women

“Какая деталь разбивающейся машины поцеловала этот пенис на свадьбе его оргазма и хромированной ручки прибора?”
― J.G. Ballard, Crash

“A terrorist bomb not only killed its victims, but forced a violent rift through time and space, and ruptured the logic that held the world together.”
― J.G. Ballard

“Work dominates life in Eden-Olympia, and drives out everything else. The dream of a leisure society was the great twentieth-century delusion. Work is the new leisure. Talented and ambitious people work harder than they have ever done, and for longer hours. They find their only fulfillment through work. The men and women running successful companies need to focus their energies on the task in front of them, and for every minute of the day. The last thing they want is recreation.”
― J G Ballard