“And that unconscious ease that comes of being so young — still oblivious to the blows that will destroy parts of her. Past the age of forty, everyone is like a bombed-out city.”
― Vernon Subutex 1
― Vernon Subutex 1
“I think of poetry and how I see it as just a raw block of stone ready to be shaped, that way words are never a horrible limit to me, just tools to shape.”
― The Basketball Diaries
― The Basketball Diaries
“Well, it is always easier to succeed at death.”
― The Wasp Factory
― The Wasp Factory
“Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite.”
― Dead Men's Trousers
― Dead Men's Trousers
“I mean, nobody tells you sex is going to be so _noisy_, do they? ...”
― The Crow Road
― The Crow Road
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