Stephen Nunn

“human behavior's gro'n so atrocious, that when one calls upon God, it's gen'rally the devil who answers... -?-”
― Arno Schmidt, Evening Edged in Gold

“Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere
they find them,”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

“Men lived without cares or labor, eating only acorns, wild fruit, and honey that dripped from trees, drinking the milk of sheep and goats, never growing old, dancing, and laughing much. Death, to them, was no more terrible than sleep. Then her sceptre passed to Uranus …”
― John Updike, The Centaur

“Is the bullshitter by his very nature a mindless slob? Is his product necessarily messy or unrefined? The word shit does, to be sure, suggest this. Excrement is not designed or crafted at all; it is merely emitted or dumped. It may have a more or less coherent shape, or it may not, but it is in any case certainly not wrought.”
― Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit