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""He dipped the pen into the ink and then faltered for just a second. A tremor had gone through his bowels. To mark the paper was the decisive act"" — Aug 31, 2024 03:49AM
""He dipped the pen into the ink and then faltered for just a second. A tremor had gone through his bowels. To mark the paper was the decisive act"" — Aug 31, 2024 03:49AM
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"Saul Bellow: "There are great advantages in not being taken too seriously. Some writers are excessively serious about themselves. They accept the ideas of the "cultivated public ". There is such a thing as overcapitalising the A in artist. In the 19th century, the artist loftily waited for inspiration. Once you elevate yourself to the rank of cultural institution, you're in for a lot of trouble "." — Jun 25, 2024 12:30PM
"Saul Bellow: "There are great advantages in not being taken too seriously. Some writers are excessively serious about themselves. They accept the ideas of the "cultivated public ". There is such a thing as overcapitalising the A in artist. In the 19th century, the artist loftily waited for inspiration. Once you elevate yourself to the rank of cultural institution, you're in for a lot of trouble "." — Jun 25, 2024 12:30PM
“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
― Revolutionary Road
― Revolutionary Road
“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
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“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”
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“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you.”
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