Theron Debus

“Bad girls understand that there is no point in being good and suffering in silence. What good has good ever done?”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

“Charles Baudelaire’s refusal was the most profound form of refusal, for it was in no way the assertion of an opposite principle. It only expressed that which was indefensible and impossible in the poet’s obstructed state of mind.”
― Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil

“If personal meaning, in this cheer leader society, lies in success, then failure must threaten identity itself.”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

“It is good to remove oneself sometimes and get a sense of perspective from a little further away.”
― Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory