Gurami > Gurami's Quotes

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

“Walking is broken falls, the body leaning, the legs advancing to catch it.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Strong Motion

“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”
― Bertolt Brecht

“God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“consider," replies the geomancer, "--adam and eve ate fruit from a tree, and were enlighten'd. the buddha sat beneath a tree, and he was enlighten'd. newton, also sitting beneath a tree, was hit by a falling apple,--and he was enlighten'd. a quick overview would suggest trees produce enlightenment. trees are not the problem. the forest is not an agent of darkness. but it may be your visto is.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon