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“…he has the body of an upright greyhound and the face of—eerily, uncannily—a fresh-hatched chicken (plus soulless eyes that reflect no light and seem to “see” only in the way that fish’s and birds’ eyes “see”).”

Lol DFW’s kinda hilarious

“…the realities of top-level athletics today require an early and total commitment to one pursuit. An almost ascetic focus. A sub-sumption of almost all other features of human life to their one chosen talent and pursuit. A consent to live in a world that, like a child’s world, is very serious and very small.”

“It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able truly to see, articulate, and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it—and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence.”

“This will be fatherhood from hereon in, he thinks: just another anonymous consumer of her brand.”

“Are we bad people Did I do the wrong thing
What will become of us”

“After class Elaine told Cass she had decided that instead of a brand ambassador she now wanted to be a poet.”

“In his dark nature there was a touch of the feminine, as in all the great pirates, and it sometimes gave him intuitions.”

“The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!”

Thesis statement of this book: “Treachery and violence are a just return for treachery and violence!”

“You are a dog in the manger, Cathy, and desire no one to be loved but yourself!” “You are an impertinent little monkey!” exclaimed Mrs. Linton, in surprise. “But I’ll not believe this idiocy!

"Lately I never felt good enough. I always wanted to explain to him that I was not good." "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. Is that it?" "I guess so. Maybe that's it."

"Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous."

“Things do not change with a change of scene.”

“”I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb.” “You can’t make a race horse of a pig.” “No,” said Samuel, “but you can make a very fast pig.”

“The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.”

“Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”

“He felt the warmth for his brother you can feel only for one who is not perfect and therefore no target for your hatred.”

“Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.”

"The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."

“But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them.”

“Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘em to ashes, then burn the ashes.”

“The newborn babies would cry intermittently. Although there was no cradle in my room, I too had delivered. I felt no different from the women in the next room.”

“I felt attracted to the gentle, fair-haired boy with whom I had been dancing for most of the evening. The first time since I learned I was pregnant. So, nothing could stop a woman’s cunt from stretching and opening, even when her belly already contained an embryo that would receive a stranger’s spurt of semen without flinching.”

Grabe siya!!!

“In his mind, I had moved on from the type of girl who might say no to the type who had undoubtedly said yes. At a time when this distinction was paramount and dictated boys’ attitudes towards girls, Jean T was merely being pragmatic, confident that he could no longer get me pregnant since I was already expecting.”

Men 🤮🤮🤮🤮

“Although I did not share my father’s aversion to ugliness, which often led us to associate with stupid people, I felt vaguely uncomfortable with anyone devoid of physical charms. Their resignation to the fact that they were unattractive seemed to me somehow indecent.”

Lol how French

“I’m not against a bit of superstition. It gives people the idea that this world’s not everything.”

"We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve."

"It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved, when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love."

“…hadn’t she always in those days been careful to write to me, as she put it, ‘between the lines’? But this latest love had burst the cage of lines. It had refused to be kept between them out of sight.”

“So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.”