“Does this pose a moral dilemma for you? Do you find it atrocious?” he asks. “Not at all. The human being is complex and I find the vile acts, contradictions, and sublimities characteristic of our condition astonishing. Our existence would be an exasperating shade of gray if we were all flawless.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other. The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“Tenía la mirada humana del animal domesticado”.”
― Cadáver exquisito
― Cadáver exquisito
“The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.”
― Death of a Salesman
― Death of a Salesman
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