16 quotes found
“If theres no sacrifice, theres no love.”
“What was marriage but sex plus property.”
“Its frustration which makes creativity possible.”
“He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.”
“Theres a lot of degradation in sex, isnt there?When its done right.”
“Women only wear beautiful clothes so that men will want to remove them.”
“My blackness is spreading, Alice. Ive been seeing and hearing things that cant be there or anywhere. At night, when Im not hallucinating mad women, I can feel depression starting to burn me around ...”
“Plato, along with the latest pope, recognised how dangerous it is to have an artist around making mischief, stirring things up with the spoon of truth and intoxicant of fantasy and magic. And so, f...”
“The writer, indeed every real artist, was the devil, rivalling God in creativity, trying even to surpass him. God was surely mans most fatal creation, the devils kitsch bitch. It was God, with his ...”
“Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insult the other, for fear of being hounded and murdered. These days a writer wit...”
“Who can think of Larkin now without considering his fondness for the buttocks of schoolgirls and paranoid hatred of blacks Or Eric Gills copulations with more or less every member of his family, i...”
“Popeye the Sailor Man has more cultural longevity. Only women and poofs read or write now. Otherwise, these days, no sooner has someone been sodomised by a close relative than they think they can w...”
“Mamoon went on, The news I bring is to say that, man being the only animal who hates himself, the likely fate of the world is total self-destruction. He raised his glass. All the best then, my frie...”
“Ive said before, Harry, no need to hide your light, said Alice, squeezing his hand. She giggled, Dance, monkey, dance.”
“How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture?”
“When Victor Hugo was buried, you couldnt find a whore in all of Paris. They were too busy paying their respects. That was a man and he still has a show on in the West End.”
