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“Bigfoot didn’t answer but there were times Doc could hear his silences, and this one was saying Too Much You Can’t Know About So Fuck Off.”
― Inherent Vice
― Inherent Vice
“Если разобраться, я полагаю, будто во мне присутствует нечто, способное привлечь эту женщину и поставить меня в ее глазах неизмеримо выше любого обладателя пары рысаков. Но ведь в таком противопоставлении уже заключена невыносимая пошлость — допуская его, я сам низвожу до уровня пары рысаков то, что с моей точки зрения должно быть для нее неизмеримо выше. Если для меня это предметы одного рода, с какой стати она должна проводить какие-то различия? И потом, что это, собственно, такое, что должно быть для нее выше? Мой внутренний мир? То, что я думаю и чувствую? От”
― Чапаев и Пустота
― Чапаев и Пустота
“How’s that, Motella.” “Ooh, like wondering how it must be, getting into bed with somebody, who has another person’s name? tattooed on his body?” “No problem unless all you do in bed is read,” muttered Lourdes.”
― Inherent Vice
― Inherent Vice
“Never mind. Just be advised, boys,” she said, “you’ll want to watch your step, ’cause what I am is, is like a small-diameter pearl of the Orient rolling around on the floor of late capitalism—lowlifes of all income levels may step on me now and then but if they do it’ll be them who slip and fall and on a good day break their ass, while the ol’ pearl herself just goes a-rollin on.”
― Inherent Vice
― Inherent Vice
“Why? Why this unreasonable anger at the sight of others who are happy or content, this growing contempt for people and the desire to hurt them? All right, you think they’re fools, you despise them because their morals, their happiness is the source of your frustration and resentment. But these are dreadful enemies you carry within yourself—in time destructive as bullets. Mercifully, a bullet kills its victim. This other bacteria, permitted to age, does not kill a man but leaves in its wake the hulk of a creature torn and twisted; there is still fire within his being but it is kept alive by casting upon it faggots of scorn and hate. He may successfully accumulate, but he does not accumulate success, for he is his own enemy and is kept from truly enjoying his achievements.” Perry,”
― In Cold Blood
― In Cold Blood
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