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“The sky is blue,’ he said, ‘the grass is green.’ Looking up, he saw that, on the contrary, the sky is like the veils which a thousand Madonnas have let fall from their hair; and the grass fleets and darkens like a flight of girls fleeing the embraces of hairy satyrs from enchanted woods.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“The stupidity/pleasure axis I apply to popular artists: how much pleasure they give versus how stupid one has to become to receive said pleasure.”
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
― Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
“There may be a logical or historical reason why mid-Victorian English butchers should have been predominantly Conservative (a link with agriculture?) and grocers overwhelmingly Liberal (a link with overseas trade?), but none has been established, and perhaps what needs explaining is not this, but why these two omnipresent types of shopkeeper refused to share the same opinions, whatever they were.”
― The Age of Capital, 1848–1875
― The Age of Capital, 1848–1875
“Power has become so subtle and complex a thing in the ways taken by the Ekumen that only a subtle mind can watch it work; here it is still limited, still visible. In Estraven, for instance, one feels the man's power as an augmentation of his character; he cannot make an empty gesture or say a word that is not listened to. He knows it, and the knowledge gives him more reality than most people own: a solidness of being, a substantiality, a human grandeur. Nothing succeeds like success. I don't trust Estraven, whose motives are forever obscure; I don't like him; yet I feel and respond to his authority as surely as I do to the warmth of the sun.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Elle avait un perroquet, très joli, toutes les couleurs les plus appréciées. Je le comprenais mieux que sa maîtresse. Je ne veux pas dire que je le comprenais mieux qu'elle ne le comprenait, je veux dire que je le comprenais mieux que je ne la comprenais elle. Il disait de temps en temps, Putain de conasse de merde de chiaison. Il avait dû appartenir à une personne française avant d'appartenir à Lousse. Les animaux changent souvent de propriétaire. Il ne disait pas grand'chose d'autre. Si, il disait aussi, Fuck ! Ce n’était pourtant pas une personne française qui lui avait appris à dire, Fuck ! Peut-être qu'il l'avait trouvé tout seul, ça ne m'étonnerait pas. Lousse essayait de lui faire dire, Pretty Polly ! Je crois que c'était trop tard. Il écoutait, la tête de côté, réfléchissait, puis disait, Putain de conasse de merde de chiaison. On voyait qu'il faisait un effort.”
― Molloy
― Molloy
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