

“A statement on the political responsibility of the critic: the critic must attempt to fully realize, and take responsibility for, the unspoken, unrepresented pasts that haunt the historical present.”
― The Location of Culture
― The Location of Culture
“There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.”
― Mount Pleasant
― Mount Pleasant

“Whenever people wonder “What is the truth?” usually it is because the truth is just under their noses—but it would be very inconvenient to acknowledge it.”
― The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays
― The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays

“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.”
― Hopscotch
― Hopscotch

“I had to decide between being a man who is not entirely a man, and being a dead man. I chose the former.”
― A Man Who is Not a Man
― A Man Who is Not a Man

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