Ashly Wertman > Ashly's Quotes

“They're animals, all right. But why are you so sure that makes us human beings?”
― Richard Bachman

“Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

“The slower a clock, the nearer it approximated to the infinitely gradual and majestic progression of cosmic time - in fact, by reversing a clock's direction and running it backwards one could devise a time-piece that in a sense was moving even more slowly than the universe, and consequently part of an even greater spatio-temporal system.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World

“Thing is, as ye git aulder, this character-deficiency gig becomes mair sapping. Thir wis a time ah used tae say tae aw the teachers, bosses, dole punters, poll-tax guys, magistrates, when they telt me ah was deficient:'Hi, cool it, gadge, ah'm jist me, jist intae a different sort ay gig fae youse but, ken?' Now though, ah've goat tae concede thit mibee they cats had it sussed. Ye take a healthier slapping the aulder ye git. The blows hit hame mair. It's like yon Mike Tyson boy at the boxing, ken?

Every time ye git it thegither tae make a comeback, thir's jist a wee bit mair missin. So ye fuck up again. Yip, ah'm jist no a gadge cut oot fir modern life n that's aw thir is tae it, man. Sometimes the gig goes smooth, then ah jist pure panic n it's back tae the auld weys. What kin ah dae?”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.”
― Martin Amis, The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
― Charles Bukowski

“To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.”
― Douglas Coupland, JPod

“Caro, you're a pretty girl, but I'd no sooner fuck a good waitress than I'd key my own car”
― Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself

“a heck of a lot of things are bound to go wrong in a world as big as this one. And if there's an answer to why it's that way - and there ain't always - why, it's probably not just one answer by itself, but thousands of answers.”
― Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280

“...out of despair I decided to follow this horror through. I stared down at what I was already grasping in my hand, like an ape; I wrapped myself in the dust and took off my trousers.
Interwoven joy and terror strangled me within. I strangled and I gasped from pleasure. The more those pictures terrified me, the more intense was my excitement at the sight of them. After days of accumulating alarms, tensions, suffocations, I was beyond withstanding my own ignominy. I invoked it and I blessed it. It was my inevitable fate: my joy was all the greater since, with regard to life, I had long since entrenched myself in an attitude of suffering, and now, in the throes of delight, I progressed even farther into vileness and degradation.”
― Georges Bataille, My Mother / Madame Edwarda / The Dead Man

“Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.”
― Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School

“el infierno de los vivos no es algo que será; hay uno, es aquél que existe ya aquí, el infierno que habitamos todos los días, que formamos estando juntos. Dos maneras hay de no sufrirlo. La primera es fácil para muchos: aceptar el infierno y volverse parte de él hasta el punto de no verlo más. La segunda es peligrosa y exige atención y aprendizaje continuos: buscar y saber reconocer quién y qué, en medio del infierno, no es infierno, y hacerlo durar, y darle espacio.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.”
― M. Ageyev, Novel with Cocaine

“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor:
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted — nevermore!”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems

“Like all that you are is the wanting, and the rest of you just burns away?”
― Megan Abbott, The End of Everything

“Doing nothing, badly.”
― Graham Greene

“I mean, I may not hold the record in cleaning house either, but if I've got old milk cartons that smell like maggots I bundle them up and put them out."
"I'm on a disability pension'" he said. "I'm socially incompetent.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“_ სამეფო არმიაში მსახურობდი, შვილო? ჩემი ბრაიანიც მანდ იყო, სამეფო არმიაში, ბრაიან ლედლოუ.
_ ემმმ, ისა… არა, ქალბატონო, ფლოტში ვიყავი, _ მხრებს იჩეჩავს ჯონი.
_ ბრაიენი აღარ დამიბრუნდა, ღმერთმა აცხონოს მისი სული. ოცდაერთი წლის იყო, ჩემი საწყალი ბიჭი. ისეთი კარგი ყმაწვილი იყო, _ ქალს თვალები ცრემლებით ევსება. ხმა მთლად ჩაუწყდა და საწყალობელი გაუხდა საკუთარი უსუსური დარდის გამო. _ იცი, შვილო, ეგ საზიზღარი ტეტჩერი სიცოცხლის ბოლომდე მეძულება. ერთი დღეც არ გავა, ეგ რო არ დავწყევლო.
მერე საფულეს იღებს, ოცგირვანქიან კუპიურას პოულობს და ჯონის ხელში უტენის:
_ აიღე, შვილო, ამის მეტი არაფერი მაქვს, მაგრამ მინდა, რო შენ გქონდეს. _ მერე ქვითინი უვარდება და მიდის, ფეხზე ძლივს დგას; ისეთი გრძნობაა, თითქოს დანით დაჭრეს.
_ ღმერთმა დაგლოცოთ, ქალბატონო! _ მიჰკივის ჯონი მიმავალს. _ ღმერთმა დალოცოს შოტლანდიელი ჯარისკაცები! _ მერე ტაშსაც შემოჰკრავს, სიხარულით აღარაა, რომ მალე ციკლოზინს იყიდის და იმ მეტადონთან ერთად გადაუშვებს, რომელიც უკვე აქვს. ფსიქომეტადონური კოკტეილი: მისი ნეტარებისაკენ მიმავალი ბილეთი, მისი პატარა სამოთხისაკენ, რომელსაც გაუცნობიერებლები დასცინიან და ვერ აფასებენ; ეგენი ვერასოდეს ჩასწვდებიან ამ ნეტარების არსს... ელბოს მთელი ბღუჯა ციკლოზინი აქვს, კიბოს გამო გამოუწერეს. დღეს საღამოს აუცილებლად მოინახულებს იმ თავის ავადმყოფ მეგობარს. ელბოს მაგისი კალიკები სჭირდება, ჯონის კიდე _ მისი ფსიქოტროპულები. ინტერესთა იდეალური თანხვედრაა. დიახაც! ღმერთმა წყალობა არ მოუშალოს შოტლანდიელ ჯარისკაცებს და ბრიტანულ ჯანდაცვას!”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.”
― R.D. Ronald

“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he’s worked so hard to subdue.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy

“I'm like that, nothing sticks.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly high because of the beauty, and the inside of my head tickled. I wondered if this is how artists go through life, with all of its sensations tickling their craniums like a peacock feather..”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

“In the talcum on the floor around him he could see the imprints of his mother's feet. She had moved from side to side, propelled by an over-eager partner, perhaps one of the Japanese officers to whom she was teaching to tango. Jim tried out the dance steps himself, which seemed far more violent than any tango he had ever seen, and managed to fall and cut his hand on the broken mirror.”
― J G Ballard

“When a child grows old enough to know J.R.R. Tolkien was just staring at a typewriter, the truth can be a wounding exposé.”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm

“It's always the same--you get used to one thing, then it changes. Get used to another, and that changes. Over and over. Always the same.

O well, the hell with it. It's not important anyway.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., The Room

“If I'm a bitch and a fake, is there nobody who will love a bitch and a fake?”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair