Quotable Quotes discussion
Favorite quote from book you just read?
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I died laughing!

"You met her, I suppose?"
"Yes. She'd make a jazzy week-end, but she'd be wearing for a steady diet."
"The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men."
And many, many more..."The Big Sleep", Raymond Chandler

Jorge Luis Borges, El Zahir, 1947

-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables



― Albert Einstein

Books mentioned in this topic
The Big Sleep (other topics)Naked Lunch (other topics)
The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.
- William S. Burroughs, "Naked Lunch"
Any others?