“I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.”
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“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.”
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“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”
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“Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.
- The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse”
― The October Country
- The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse”
― The October Country
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