Barry Wightman
Goodreads Author
Born
in St Louis, MO, The United States
Website
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
December 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/barrywightman
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Pepperland
3 editions
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published
2013
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“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Come Back, Dr. Caligari
― Come Back, Dr. Caligari

“And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don't already have one ... I'm out of here.”
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“A screaming comes across the sky.”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow

“I began to parse the sentence. This is what English majors do. It's what we're trained to do. We don't know how to do anything else, except drive cabs.”
― The Heart of Darkness Club
― The Heart of Darkness Club

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon

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