“The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.”
― Underworld
― Underworld
“Love helps us develop an identity secure enough to allow itself to be placed in another's care and protection.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“I thought about soccer in history, the inspiration for wars, truces, rampaging mobs. The game was a global passion, spherical ball, grass or turf, entire nations in spasms of elation or lament. But what kind of sport is it that disallows the use of players' hands, except for the goalkeeper? Hands are essential human tools, the things that grasp and hold, that make, take, carry, create. If soccer were an American invention, wouldn't some European intellectual maintain that our historically puritanical nature has compelled us to invent a game structured on anti-masturbatory principles?”
― The Angel Esmeralda
― The Angel Esmeralda
“Here's a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, "Obsession."
Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,
Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,
Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob”
― A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dipped Carrot
Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,
Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,
Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob”
― A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dipped Carrot
“It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
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