Quotes

I have love and wickedness in my heart.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

 

Later, when I was wised up and was debeatified, I was more sensual.

Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

 

Tres coas hay en la vida

Salud dinero y amor

 

…a thud of apricot light. , Gravity’s Rainbow

 

The end of blisse ay sorwe it occupieth.

Troilus and Criseyde, IV., ln. 836

 

Time can but make it easier to be wise

Though now it seems impossible and so

All that you need is patience.

Yeats, “The Folly of Being Comforted”

 

Yes, it happened in the twinkling of an eye, which is the only way that anything important ever does happen.

Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

 

And I like a second comer, waiting.

D.H. Lawerence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

 

You can find out more by talking than by listening.

William Burroughs, The Naked Lunch

 

De vanitae mundi et fuga saeculi (On the vanity of the world and the passing of time).

 

Non enim excursus hic ijus, sed opus ipsum est. (For this is not a digression (or excursion), but is itself the work).

Pliny the Younger

 

When we contemplate the finite against the infinite, consciously or unconsciously, humor results, therefore humorous writers delight to end in nothing or a direct contradiction.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

Bon Dieu! Etre content, etre en amor, n’est-ce que ca?

Eternal cry of the romantic confronted with the disappointing reality of his heart’s desires.

What Mario perceived as a sudden radical drop in the prevailing temperature was in fact the U.S.S. Millicent Kent’s sexual stimulation sucking tremendous quantities of ambient energy out of the air surrounding them.

D.F.W. Infinite Jest

 

O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It

Seems she hangs upon the cheek of night

As a rich jewel in an Ethop’s ear

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,

As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.

Romeo and Juliet I.iv. 45-9

 

Where emotion lies, there am I. Henry James

 

If all the year were playing holidays,

To sport would be as tedious as to work.

Henry IV I.ii 193-4

 

O Time, thou must untangle this, not I

It is too hard a knot for me to untie.

Twelfth Night, II.ii

 

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettantism and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

 

You’re daft. I’m breaking up the band.

John to Paul

 

May the days be aimless. Let the seasons pass. Do not advance the action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo, White Noise