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Beneath the clock was an enormous arrow, on which was printed: Change Here For Eastern Trains. But time had no arrow, not here.
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How many times have I asked myself: when is the world going to start making sense? Yet the answer is out there. It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground.
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Today, in the West, there are no good excuses for religious belief - unless we think that ignorance, reaction, and sentimentality are good excuses.
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It’s a common slander of the Jews, but it’s no slander of a huge fraction of the Germans. They went like sheep to the slaughterhouse. And then they donned the rubber aprons and set to work.
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Q: What’s the difference between a Communist car and a Communist proselytizer? A: You can close the door on a Communist proselytizer.
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Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback
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Once, as he inhaled with his customary vehemence, I had a thought that made my armpits come alive.
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[Describing the soap in the gulag] It smelt as if some sacred physical law had been demeaned in its creation.
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If you can fight, you don’t have to fight. And you don’t have to cower. And girls like that, whatever they say.
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Beauty, extreme yet ambiguously available; this very roughly, was what Nicola's entrance to the Black Cross had said to Keith. But he didn't know the nature -- he didn't know the brand -- of the availability.
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Pain is nature’s way of telling us that something is wrong. Patiently, pain goes on telling us this, long after we’ve got the message.
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Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end.
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Mary wanted to get out of here and on to another plane of life; but these words weren't going to help her out. They had been put together with only one thing in mind: to lock her in.
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On dope he sometimes thought that all the televisions on Calchalk Street were softly cackling about Richard Tull: news flashes about his most recent failures, panel discussions about his obscurity, his neglect.
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It’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Great, what do atheists shout when they do it?
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Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time’s arrow moves the other way.
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Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich...Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich...The well and all its sweet water would surely one day run dry.
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Evidentemente � questa la caratteristica della citt� contemporanea. Puoi aver voglia di lavorarci. Ma nessuno si aspetta seriamente che tu ci viva.
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Sex was like Disneyland to her: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief.
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If you want a couple of weeks in bed (as I did, bi-annually), and if you have indolent and credulous parents, it’s amazing what a few packs of French cigarettes will do.
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She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food.
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In the Gulag, it was not the case that people died like flies. Rather, flies died like people.
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After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.
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I've got two backs, me - and I'm glad! Tits can be . . . mwa, I know, but they're always in the bloody road. Even in bed.
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Although he liked nearly everything else about himself, Keith hated his redeeming features. In his view they constituted his only major shortcoming -his one tragic flaw.
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Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts.
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By 12.30, Giles had consumed five gin-rickies, four gin-and-tonics, three gin-and-its, two gin-and-bitters, and one gin.
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Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.
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Who let the dogs in? ...This, we fear, is going to be the question. Who let the dogs in? Who let the dogs in? Who? Who?
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The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the poets at the bus stop.)
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And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. You got that? And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look, and feel, like shit.
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You don't have problems, only a capacity for feeling anxious about them, which shifts and jostles but doesn't change.
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But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.
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When I opened the door to her I felt like a child who believes itself lost on a swarming street and suddenly sees that all-solving outline, that indispensable displacement of air.
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This had seemed a safe choice, since to be against the Beatles (late-middle period) is to be against life.
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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
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Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.
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