Martin Stray

“Women are never virgins. Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Shit, money, and the Word, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country’s fate.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed!”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“At a certain degree of lucid intoxication, lying late at night between two prostitutes and drained of all desire, hope ceases to be a torture, you see; the mind dominates the whole past, and the pain of living is over forever.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall