“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence.”
― A Critic's Notebook
― A Critic's Notebook
“Quick, man! Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!”
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“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
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