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You’re a good yogurt person who deserves everything you want in life.
asif khan
Wonderful book that turns the screw until it's amazing denouement.
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Iain Banks
“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

Heinrich Heine
“Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.”
Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine
“Guter Rat

Laß dein Grämen und dein Schämen!
Werbe keck und fordre laut,
Und man wird sich dir bequemen,
Und du führest heim die Braut.

Wirf dein Gold den Musikanten,
Denn die Fiedel macht das Fest;
Küsse deine Schwiegertanten,
Denkst du gleich: Hol euch die Pest!

Rede gut von einem Fürsten,
Und nicht schlecht von einer Frau;
Knickre nicht mit deinen Würsten,
Wenn du schlachtest eine Sau.

Ist die Kirche dir verhaßt, Tor,
Desto öfter geh hinein;
Zieh den Hut ab vor dem Pastor,
Schick ihm auch ein Fläschchen Wein.

Fühlst du irgendwo ein Jücken,
Kratze dich als Ehrenmann;
Wenn dich deine Schuhe drücken,
Nun, so zieh Pantoffeln an.

Hat versalzen dir die Suppe
Deine Frau, bezähm die Wut,
Sag ihr lächelnd: Süße Puppe,
Alles was du kochst ist gut.

Trägt nach einem Schal Verlangen
Deine Frau, so kauf ihr zwei;
Kauf ihr Spitzen, goldne Spangen
Und Juwelen noch dabei.

Wirst du diesen Rat erproben,
Dann, mein Freund! genießest du
Einst das Himmelreich dort oben,
Und du hast auf Erden Ruh.”
Heinrich Heine, Gedichte 1853 und 1854

William Gaddis
“-Put on the lights there, now. Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos...”
William Gaddis, J R

John Kennedy Toole
“...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.'

What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'

Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.”
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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