“I remembered what Ivan had said in The Brothers Karamazov, “Who doesn’t want to kill the father?”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
“There are people to whom you could not say insulting things. They give you a feeling that the world would be destroyed, would actually be destroyed before your eyes, if you said certain things.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“As zoologist Alfred Wallace put it, “We live in a zoologically impoverished world from which all the hugest, and fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared.”
― The Pessimist's Guide to History
― The Pessimist's Guide to History
“Every time I see you you have a drink in your hand. You call that protecting yourself?” “It’s the best way I know. Without drink I would have long ago cut my god-damned throat.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
“She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else’s eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
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