“Horrorshow is right, friend. A real show of horrors.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“People who go to the Opera, they don't go to the toilet, not even at home.”
― Money
― Money
“Everyone knew the urge to run from the world; few dared do it.”
― The Children Act
― The Children Act
“Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful?” he said. “It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves? Euripides speaks of the Maenads: head thrown back, throat to the stars, ‘more like deer than human being.’ To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! These are powerful mysteries. The bellowing of bulls. Springs of honey bubbling from the ground. If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah!
- The Count Sesame Street”
― The Long Walk
- The Count Sesame Street”
― The Long Walk
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