“And she did not have to ask if this were right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
“It is an American weakness. The success becomes the sage. Scientists counsel on civil liberty; comedians and actresses lead political rallies; athletes tell us what brand of cigarette to smoke.”
― Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
― Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
“You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation.”
― Brokeback Mountain
― Brokeback Mountain
“But love and hate, he thought now, good and evil, lived side by side in the human heart, and not merely in differing proportions in one man and the next, but all good and all evil. One had merely to look for a little of either to find it all, one had merely to scratch the surface. All things had opposites close by, every decision a reason against it, every animal an animal that destroys it, the male the female, the positive the negative.”
― Strangers on a Train
― Strangers on a Train
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