I’ve set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling
Fifty Shades of Grey author E. L. James.
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“Нового шага, нового собственного слова они всего больше боятся.” (“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”)  -Fyodor Dostoevsky in honor of his apparent win in the other day’s showdown.
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“Нового шага, нового собственного слова они всего больше боятся.” (“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”) 

-Fyodor Dostoevsky in honor of his apparent win in the other day’s showdown.

It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human state: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via honeyforthehomeless)

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“Well I was born a rambler, friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now, it could be most any day. But if there ain’t no whiskey and women, Lord, behind those heavenly doors, I’m gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure.” — Townes Van Zandt [Image]
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“Well I was born a rambler, friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now, it could be most any day. But if there ain’t no whiskey and women, Lord, behind those heavenly doors, I’m gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure.” — Townes Van Zandt

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Sometimes you suffocate when you think of the past; of a life that never was, flashing up in sepia. Memory which is creamy-yellow, cracked; composed of protogallic acid, protosulphate of iron, potassium cyanide. Let’s not get too technical. Not right now. It makes for too much exposure. Still, in the dark, you remember that in Shanghai they used to wrap tomatoes in tissue paper. Like this story. Like the way everything in history is wrapped in a tissue; of words, of memories, of lies.
Brian Castro, Shanghai Dancing

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I haven’t the least idea what such young ladies expect a man to do. But I really think that you had better not meddle with little American girls that are uncultivated, as you call them. You have lived too long out of the country. You will be sure to make some great mistake.
Henry James, Daisy Miller
For an Irish person, it’s always there, the way it is for, say, a Cuban. To be Irish is to make up your mind about whether or not to leave Ireland.
John Jeremiah Sullivan

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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)