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“The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her”
“I’d spend hours in HMVs, Virgin Megastores and second-hand record shops staffed by greasy-haired 40-year-olds dressed as 20-year-olds, listening to contemporary music of every genre – Britrock, hea...”
“Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.It was its tendency to bend at the knees.”
“But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.”
“If wishes were horses, I'd need a very big stable.”
“But neither could compare with the gargantuan natural edifice that was the mountain upon which Nachtstürm Castle rose. It was a mountain made of the darkness between two lightning bolts. It was mad...”
“And Talon did not understand – no, strike that, he didn‘t want to understand – why seeing Hawk and Roadkill together gave him a funny ache in the pit of his stomach. Every time he looked at Flit, t...”
“How I ever could have thought he was boring or easy was beyond me’ (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 471).”
“Fabre stood up. He placed his fingertips on d‘Anton’s temples. “Put your fingers here,” he said. “Feel the resonance. Put them here, and here.” He jabbed at d’Anton’s face: below the cheekbones, at...”
“Is it colour?’‘Oh yes.’‘You don’t let me down.You are my ambassador to pr0n, man.”
“Honestly—who puts a hamburger next to diet tofu curry unless they’re trying to buy your soul?”
“Oh—and you need to work on making my opinion more important than Josh’s, too. I know it’s a stretch—he’s your most intimate relationship to date, but when you’re balls deep in my ass, I’d prefer yo...”
“In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit to produce a rhytmic farting.”
“I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.”
“This is why I didn’t get married last year,” she said to him. “I wouldn’t be here to nurse you.” She thought about that for a moment. “Of course, one could make the argument that you wouldn’t be in...”
“Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. The note: 'No hard feelings, everyone, but I've thought about it and it's just not on, is it? It's ...”
“I'll be with my sister. And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoke signals last year." - Nana”
“Why couldn't Rachel be a little more specific about the type of person she was? Goodness knew; if she were a hippie I'd talk to her about her drug experiences, the zodiac, tarot cards. If she were ...”
“Just because you disagreed with the Poll Tax and detested Margaret Thatcher—""Detest is a little inappropriate," Parlabane said. "Maybe closer to say I spent the entire Eighties wishing I was pissi...”
“Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze — and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.”
