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"“It wasn’t me, brother, sir” Alex whines at his social worker, who has hurried to the local jailhouse. “Speak up for me, sir, for I’m not so bad.”
But Oh Alex, you are so bad and you know it. The opening chapters of this still deliver the shock of the new: a red streak of gleeful evil." — Nov 10, 2017 10:58AM
"“It wasn’t me, brother, sir” Alex whines at his social worker, who has hurried to the local jailhouse. “Speak up for me, sir, for I’m not so bad.”
But Oh Alex, you are so bad and you know it. The opening chapters of this still deliver the shock of the new: a red streak of gleeful evil." — Nov 10, 2017 10:58AM
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it.”
― Swann's Way
― Swann's Way
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.”
― Sexing the Cherry
― Sexing the Cherry
“And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed...
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.”
― This Side of Paradise
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.”
― This Side of Paradise
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