Pratyaksha

“I just have to get rid of this piece of glass,' said Anne. 'I guess something broke here earlier?'
'It was me,' said Patrick.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Never Mind

“The first great break-through—or, rather, breakdown—of society’s nudity/lewdity guilt-by-association was the now-famous Marilyn Monroe calendar. Marilyn’s respectability when she died was based principally upon her economic status, which is, in the final analysis, the only type our society really respects.”
― Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography

“I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent

“Catch-22 says they have the right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22