Devlal > Devlal's Quotes

“Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives. Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the stair, a spluttering match held to a frosted pane, the warm wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy, the hulk of a charred Panzer, the underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl, cobwebs long since overrun by an old Wellington boot.”
― Stephen Fry

“Waiting is erotic”
― irene nemirovsky, Suite Française

“Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
― Robert Frost

“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“The law is an opinion with a gun.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster

“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”
― Mik Everett

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“Things do not change; we change.”
― henry david thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche