“I see you have books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across somebody that still reads, brother.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“À partir de là, le dialogue de la journée suivait une pente uniformément descendante, mais avec des lèvres et des mains chaleureuses et languides flottant sur les surface les plus sensibles du corps, le monde était aussi près que possible de la perfection. Freud appelait cela un état de perversité polymorphe impersonnel et le regardait d'un mauvais oeil, mais je doute fort qu'il ait jamais eu les mains de Lil lui frôlant le corps. Ou même celles de sa propre femme dans le même rôle. Freud était un bien grand homme, mais je n'arrive pas à me faire à l'idée que quelqu'un lui ait jamais efficacement flatté le pénis.”
― The Dice Man
― The Dice Man
“The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring. Would they feel that piece of bread in the mattress? Would he have any luck in the dispensary that evening? Would they out Buinovsky in the cells? And how did Tsezar get his hands on that warm vest?”
― One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
― One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
“when you see everything, you realize that nothing means anything”
― God Jr.
― God Jr.
“—Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there would not be one tree left standing on God’s green Earth.”
― The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins: A Novel
― The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins: A Novel
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