“She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.”
― Gormenghast
― Gormenghast
“That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“A poet's purified truth can cause no pain, no offense. True art is above false honor.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so simply that in a sense, by the very act of brutish routine acceptance, we undo the work of the ages, the history of the gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from the treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats. What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“seriousness, young man, is an accident of time”
― Steppenwolf
― Steppenwolf
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