Sam > Sam's Quotes

“His eyes the bright brown of July Fourth sunlight through a tall mug of root beer. Quite the American specimen. A classic face of such symmetrical proportions, the exactly balanced type of face one dreams of looking down to find smiling and eager between one's inner thighs. Still, that's the trouble with only a single glance at any star on the horizon.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“A person who contracts a marriage no more makes or invents marriage than a swimmer invents nature and the laws of water and of gravity. Marriage, therefore, cannot adapt itself to his caprice, to his arbitrary will, but his caprice, his arbitrary will, must adapt itself to marriage. (Karl Marx)”
― Eugene Kamenka, The Portable Karl Marx

“All moral relationships are indissoluble according to their concept, as one can easily convince one's self by postulating their truth. A true state, a true marriage, a true friendship, and indissoluble. But no state, no marriage, no friendship corresponds completely to its concept... (Karl Marx)”
― Eugene Kamenka

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Excitable little fellow," said Gandalf, as they sat down again. "Gets funny queer fits, but he is one of the best, one of the best – as fierce as a dragon in a pinch." If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit...”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Truly, the world ought to belong to the singers and dancers!”
― J.M. Coetzee

“Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of the neighbor's children?”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Really, now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic.
I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“Rant Casey on DRVR Radio Graphic Traffic: " . . . What if reality is nothing but some disease?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“Rant goes, "Really, truly with her whole entire heart, does Echo hate somebody?"
I go, doesn't Rant mean "love"?
And Rant shrugs and says, "Ain't it the same thing?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“Shot Dunyun: No bullshit, but I never leave the house without a mix for anything: Falling in love. Witnessing a death. Disappointment. Impatience. Traffic. I carry a mix for any human condition. Anything really good or bad happens to me, and my way not to overreact—like, to distance my emotions—is to locate the exact perfect sound track for that moment. Even the night Rant died, my automatic first thought was: Philip Glass's Violin Concerto II, or Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“Nothing and no one will separate us, not life nor death, nor principalities, nor powers, nor anything that is of the heavens nor anything that is of the earth.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men

“The emotion he felt towards her was as mysterious as it was irrational. He needed to understand it, to define its nature, to analyse what he knew was beyond analysis. But some things now he did know, and perhaps they were all he needed to know. He wished her only good. He would put her good before his own. He could no longer be separate himself from her. He would die for her life.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men

“Freedom, like everything else, is relative.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“If you don't like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it.
This was one of the most bizarre things that's happened to me, ever.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I would respect him.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“It was only after seeing Irwin's study that I decided to seduce him.”
― Sylvia Plath

“A heavy naughtiness pricked through my veins, irritating and attractive as the hurt of a loose tooth.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly our of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar