The Making of Zombie Wars Quotes

“Right now, it didn’t look good, the life. What doesn’t kill you makes you horny.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Tell the fucking story.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Perhaps if they all remained silent for as long as possible, they’d slip out of this moment into the next one, and then the next one, until all the preceding moments were erased from memory and everything could start all over again. The ultimate American dream: the eternal present, where nothing has ever happened before what is happening now.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“George W. Bush spoke to the camera, his face so decisively earnest that it was clear he was lying, his button eyes lit up with amateurish subterfuge. Only truly great men can be adept at shameless lying, Joshua thought. This dude was straining to the point of snapping.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“At worst, she kept him around so he could make her feel better when she needed it, a winning combination of a pet and a dildo.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him. In the body there is no absolute, or free, will, but the body is determined to desire this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Only gay bars were full; the heterosexual joints were empty—the heteros massively committed to watching television with their falsely monogamous spouses.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Writing is nothing if not carrying the hopeless, backbreaking burden of decisions devoid of consequences.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“He acquired the unknowable, variable depths; he could be anyone he wanted to be, and if he didn’t like who he became, he could switch again, going in, going out. And who the fuck are you?”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Man reaches a point in his life when unchanging becomes a matter of pride; the habits and remnants of youth are thereafter kept in the museum of the self.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“If someone imagines that someone loves him, and does not believe he has given any cause for it, he should love in return.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Only once did she say: “I love the way you think without thinking,”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“All the players looked absurdly inept, as though they were expressly drafted to be humiliated, entrepreneurs in the industry of losing.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Eso de estar siempre conjeturando cómo será el futuro es una deficiencia humana, y de esa deficiencia surgió el cine.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Escribir no vale de nada si no acarrea la agotadora e irresoluble carga de las decisiones sin consecuencia alguna.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Se quedó quieto, observando, aspirando el olor de la muerte. El cuello de Bernie estaba muy delgado, pero los lóbulos de las orejas, que ya habían alcanzado un tamaño enorme, eran grandes y carnosos. El cuerpo que yacía en aquella cama de hospital no debería pertenecer al padre que Joshua conocía. ¿Adónde había ido a parar el verdadero Bernie?”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“her hot attire did not signify promiscuity—contrary to the consensual interpretation of the other male teachers—but a kind of nostalgia: this was what she used to wear when she was happy, when she used to live the normal”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“History: the first time a joke, the second time a badly translated joke.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Everything after Star Wars is shit.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it. He who was never pleased is doomed to an eternal hard-on.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Hence Joshua giggled to himself: life appeared to him exactly like the joint burning inexorably toward his fingertips—once it’s smoked it cannot be unsmoked.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“It must be taking enormous energy to do her Janet-did-it-again shtick every day; no wonder she was so worn out.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“Hope sold, of course, and well; it was the corn syrup of existence, fast burning and addictive.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“The sad fact of life was that there were no cruising spots for heterosexual men. If there were, Joshua would be parked somewhere every day of his life, willing to sleep with any woman generous enough to pull up alongside him.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

“No one can desire to be blessed, to act well and to live well, unless at the same time he desires to be, to act, and to live, that is, to actually exist.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars