“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
“I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.”
― Disgrace
― Disgrace
“The ugly truth is that no employer hires anyone unless they can extract more value from them than they have to pay out in wages and benefits.”
― The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
― The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
“If the dreams of the last speaker of Chamicuro won't survive the passage into another language, then what else has been lost? What else that was expressible in that language cannot be said in another?”
― Last Night in Montreal
― Last Night in Montreal
“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
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