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“On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“Words are loneliness.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks--- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it’s painful gall-stones, it’s gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul...”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
FloorState’s 2024 Year in Books
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