Luetta Reichhardt > Luetta's Quotes

“The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.”
― J.G. Ballard, J.G. Ballard Conversations

“What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?”
― Douglas Coupland, Microserfs

“How could sincerity be a condition of friendship? A liking for the truth at all costs is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing can withstand.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“The music machine played away - far away - and when I started to understand the lyrics of a Cocteau Twins song, I knew I was wrecked.”
― Iain Banks, The Crow Road

“Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life”
― Martin Amis, Essays

“Getting old is like driving through snow that just gets deeper and deeper. When you finally get in over your hubcaps, you just spin and spin. That’s life. There are no plows to come and dig you out. Your ship isn’t going to come in, girl. There are no boats for nobody. You’re never going to win a contest. There’s no camera following you and people watching you struggle. This is it. All of it. Everything.”
― Richard Bachman, Roadwork

“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“The idea of living there, of not having to go back ever again to asphalt and shopping malls and modular furniture; of living there with Charles and Camilla and Henry and Francis and maybe even Bunny; of no one marrying or going home or getting a job in a town a thousand miles away or doing any of the traitorous things friends do after college; of everything remaining exactly as it was, that instant - the idea was so truly heavenly that I'm not sure I thought, even then, it could ever really happen, but I like to believe I did.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Jev stroked his chin. "Do I look like a summer fling?”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence

“A winner is not declared.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking