“In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.” - Don DeLillo
“From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.” - John Updike
“Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.” - Anton Chekhov
“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we’re talking about when we talk about love.”
-Raymond Carver
“Everything’s weird if you stare at it.” - Sam Lipsyte
![“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
- Virginia Woolf
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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
- Virginia Woolf
“The best revenge is massive success.” - Frank Sinatra
![“I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he’ll become.”
- Don DeLillo
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“I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he’ll become.”
- Don DeLillo
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn’t sit in the same room with me.
Dorothy Parker, as quoted in The Paris Review
There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy Parker, as quoted in The Paris Review
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