“Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est." (Roughly, "They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.")”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.”
― A Fan's Notes
― A Fan's Notes
“There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
“It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery. ”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
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