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“Jokes, secrets, complicities; a glance here, a word there: that is their way of being together, of being apart.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello

“The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, in another place it might be held to be a public matter. But in this place, in this time, it is not. It is my bussines, mine alone.
'This place being what?'
'This place being South Africa”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“You’re born, you take shit

get out in the world, you take more shit

climb a little higher, take less shit.

till one day you're in the rarefied atmosphere and you’ve forgotten what shit even looks like.

Welcome to the layer cake, son.”
― J. J. Connolly, Layer Cake

“Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone