Helene

“You've got
some 'Star-Spangled'
nails
in your coffin, kid.
That's what
they've done for you,
son.”
― Richard Brautigan

“It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.”
― John Buchan, The 39 Steps

“In a Cafe"

I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.”
― Richard Brautigan

“He felt singularly light-hearted, and the immediate cause was his safety razor. A week ago he had bought the thing in a sudden fit of enterprise, and now he shaved in five minutes, where before he had taken twenty, and no longer confronted his fellows, at least one day in three, with a countenance ludicrously mottled by sticking-plaster.”
― John Buchan, Huntingtower