“Hear no evil or speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.”
Oscar Wilde
#booze
#literature
#wilde
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“the best writers have said very
little
and the worst,
far too much”
little
and the worst,
far too much”
Bukowski, As The Poems Go
#bukowski
#literature
(Source: synecdoche)
“Its a stupid, dangerous, hellish world…But don’t let it frighten you.”
Hunter S. Thompson
#hunter s thompson
#literature
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“Solitude begets originality, bold and disconcerting beauty, poetry. But solitude can also beget perversity, disparity, the absurd and the forbidden.”
Thomas Mann
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#literature
#thomas mann
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Nabokov used to ask his students, “What color are Emma Bovary’s eyes?”
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#flaubert
#literature
#nabokov
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“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don’t try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is- particularly the artist- particularly myself!”
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”
Cyril Connolly
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#cyril connolly
#literature
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