“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
“I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
“All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
“Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make some kind of breakthrough and get moving again. Get the gum off the rails, finish something, croak this awful habit of not ever getting to the end- of anything.”
― Screwjack
― Screwjack
“It was an educated fear of the coming shit-rain”
― Better Than Sex
― Better Than Sex
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