The literati of the past relied on the ruling class for their daily bread, but things are a little different nowadays. I am delighted that the guardians of my living are neither emperors nor kings but the magazine-reading masses.
“And what was more, he had grown to like the troglodytes, these fierce, unfashionable expatriates. What was fine in them, their refusal to conform, their independence, their moral courage, was their own; what was weak, their instability, hopelessness and predatory friendships, was the result of a system: of the clumsy capitalist world that exalts money-making and poisons leisure, that suppresses talent, starves its artists, and persecutes its sexual dissenters, that denies opportunity, infects charity, and encourages only the vulgarity of competition, the triumphs, the suspicion, the heart-break of the acquisitive life.”
― The Rock Pool
― The Rock Pool
“I suppose,’ Andy said, ‘the only danger is if you get too used to it. If you get so used to it you can’t make do without the little services and luxuries––getting laid at lunchtime or being run through the bath and wanked off when you feel like sobering up. Or just being able to have a different girl every night of the week without having to be a full-time ass man to carry it through…”
― Where Dragons Dwell
― Where Dragons Dwell
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