Edward

“Well, Hilda and I were married, and right from the start it was a flop. Why did you marry her? you say. But why did you marry yours? These things happen to us. I wonder whether you’ll believe that during the first two or three years I had serious thoughts of killing Hilda. Of course in practice one never does these things, they’re only a kind of fantasy that one enjoys thinking about. Besides, chaps who murder their wives always get copped.”
― George Orwell, Coming Up for Air

“Do you realize there isn’t a Gentile character in here who isn’t slavishly in love with some Jew?”
― John Updike, Bech Is Back

“Murderers were not writing literature, after all; they were murdering.”
― Vin Packer, Something in the Shadows

“One can define conservatism as the political form of melancholy.
Fluctuating between equanimity and disgust, the conservative watches the activities of those moved by progressive feelings and waits for entropy to do its work.”
― Peter Sloterdijk, Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology