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The Great Gatsby
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a tolerable level. The room service waiter had a vaguely reptilian cast to his features, but I was no longer seeing huge pterodactyls lumbering around the corridors in pools of fresh blood. The only problem now was a gigantic neon sign outside the window, blocking our view of the mountains -- millions of colored balls running around a very complicated track, strange symbols & filigree, giving off a loud hum....
‘Look outside,’ I said.
‘Why?’
‘There's a big ... machine in the sky, ... some kind of electric snake ... coming straight at us.’
‘Shoot it,’ said my attorney.
‘Not yet,’ I said. ‘I want to study its habits.’”
―Hunter S. Thompson
Invisible Cities
“As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. A description of Zaira as it is today should contain all Zaira’s past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.”
—Italo Calvino
Tales of the City
“The last was on Russian Hill. Mary Ann arrived there at four-thirty.
The house was on Barbary Lane, a narrow, wooded walkway off Leavenworth between Union and Filbert. It was a well-weathered, three-story structure made of brown shingles. It made Mary Ann think of an old bear with bits of foliage caught in its fur. She liked it instantly.
The landlady was a fiftyish woman in a plum-colored kimono.
‘I’m Mrs. Madrigal,’ she said cheerfully. ‘As in medieval.’”
—Armistead Maupin
Hey Nostradamus!
“What else? What else? It’s better to eat lots of meals throughout the day instead of just three. Also, if you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They’ll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you’ll end up in love.”
—Douglas Coupland
The Secret History
“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
―Donna Tartt
Unseen City
“Paying attention to the minutiae of how a tree grows sounds like the most boring possible occupation. Watch paint try, and at least it’s over in a few hours. Trees can grow for centuries. But Nancy Ross Hugo and Robert Llewellyn, the creators of the remarkable book Seeing Trees, found that they actually couldn’t keep up with the trees in their backyards. If you look at the big picture—the tree as it’s growing—nothing happens. If, however, you notice the details—the leaves emerging, the flowers forming, the fruits bursting from the flowers—then threes seethe with action.”
—Nathanael Johnson
Tropic of Cancer
“I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.”
―Henry Miller
The Wild Party
The candles sputtered: their flames were gay; And the shadows leapt back out of the way. The party began to get going. The laughter rang shriller: The talk boomed louder: The women's faces showed flushed through powder; And the men's faces were glowing. The room was hung with streamers of smoke. It billowed; curled: Swung; swirled: Poured towards the candle flames And broke. Eyes flashed, Glistened: Everyone talked: Few listened. Crash! A glass smashed; And a woman swore, Shrank back Abashed.
—Joseph Moncure March
Warm Bodies
“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
—Isaac Marion
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
“And I hardly need to tell you that in the 19- or 24-inch view of the world, cleanliness has long since eclipsed godliness. Soon we'll all smell, look, and actually be laboratory clean, as sterile on the inside as on the out. The perfect consumer, surrounded by the latest appliances. The perfect audience, with a ringside seat to almost any event in the world, without smell, without taste, without feel—alone and unhappy in the vast wasteland of our living rooms. I think that what we actually need, of course, is a little more dirt on the seat of our pants as we sit on the front stoop and talk to our neighbors once again, enjoying the type of summer day where the smell of garlic travels slightly faster than the speed of sound.”
—Harvey Milk
Bossypants
“I'm a working parent and I understand that sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin all your best-laid plans.”
―Tina Fey
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
“Plants are nature’s alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the ability of human beings to conceive, much less manufacture.”
―Michael Pollan
Tell-All
“I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in its correct place.”
―Chuck Palahniuk
Brideshead Revisited
“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; a hill of many invisible crests; doors that open as in a dream to reveal only a further stretch of carpet and another door; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”
―Evelyn Waugh
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. That someone actually took the photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something.”
―Stephen Chbosky
Pop. 1280
“I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they're holding heaven in their hands.”
―Jim Thompson