15 quotes found
“I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.”
“Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.”
“Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats.”
“And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.”
“You need to relax and be yourself, not whoever it is youre trying to be in your mad little head. I bloody dont, though. Im me and Im good at it.”
“Mercer, Polly says, we are now going to hug. As a group. The experience will be very un-English. It will be good for you. Do not speak, at all, especially not in an attempt to diffuse the emotional...”
“Crotch biting menace:I have my mouth in close proximity to your genitals.Oh thou man who talks to my mistress over coffee.Do not irk or trifle with me! I possess but one tooth, oh, yes, for the res...”
“Destiny' is the state of perfect mechanical causation in which everything is the consequence of everything else. If choice is an illusion, what's life? Consciousness without volition. We'd all be p...”
“I shall now explain my plan. You may then speak, but only to amend the detail. The broad outline is not subject to negotiation. Are you ready? Good I propose to have sex with you. I believe it wil...”
“Joe Spork opens the door. The man departs. Joe turns to Polly to say something about how theyre obviously not going to Portsmouth, and finds an oyster knife balanced on his cheek, just under his ey...”
“Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.”
“Joshua Joseph had no great hatred of modern technology - he just mistrusts the effortless, textureless surfaces and the ease with which it trains you to do things in the way most convenient to the ...”
“Joshua Joseph has no real hatred of modern technology - he just mistrusts the effortless, textureless surfaces, and the ease with which it trains you to do things in the way most convenient to the ...”
“Mr. Pritchard! What are you doing? Is that O-soto-gari? No! It is not! It is a yak mating with a tractor! That is really very very not very good! My grandfather is weeping in Heaven, or he would if...”
“Just got to fnafflebrump caddwallame, all right?" Edie says, and no one pays attention. She learned at Lady Gravely's that nonsense which can be misheard is a very good way to lie without getting c...”
