“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.”
― Factotum
― Factotum
“one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
― Factotum
― Factotum
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Women
― Women
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