“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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