“Do you know the difference between neurotics and psychotics?” He answered before I could speak, “Neurotics build castles in the sky; psychotics move into them.” And”
― Assuming Names: a con artist's masquerade
― Assuming Names: a con artist's masquerade
“She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present - she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation.”
― Brighton Rock
― Brighton Rock
“Ses peintures sont blondes et lumineuses, d'une pâleur solide. La lumière tombe blanche et large, éclairant les objets d'une façon douce”
― Édouard Manet étude biographique et critique
― Édouard Manet étude biographique et critique
“Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.”
― Novel with Cocaine
― Novel with Cocaine
“It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.”
― Saturday
― Saturday
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