What I want to say is, you get us thinking. We feel from your eyes what you see in your head. You see dead bodies, skeletons, and on top of that you want us to talk like we’re dying. I’ll start doing that a few seconds before I die, but until then I’m going to live and fuck and have a good time.
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We can … [ Read more ]
Author: Gil Courtemanche | Note(s): translated from the French by Patricia Claxton | Subjects: Excerpts, History, International, Novels
“Purpose, Mr. Fortlow. Purpose. We’re all here for a reason. There is a divine plan. Good men want to find their place in that plan.”
“What there is is a plan, a direction that every living thing is moving toward. There’s a high sign but not everybody can see it.”
“No sir,” Socrates went on. “I wannna believe you. And I sure don’t wanna make … [ Read more ]
Author: Walter Mosley | Subjects: Excerpts, Novels
Herman Melville observed that “a man of true science uses but few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; whereas the smatterer in science…thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”
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“I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes” – Walt Whitman
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“There are times,” said Somerset Maugham, “when I look over the various parts of my … [ Read more ]
Author: Thomas A. Harris | Subjects: Excerpts, Psychology | Behavior