“Each had been hearing a voice, one he thought was talking only to him, say, ‘You didn’t really believe you’d be saved. Come, we all know who we are by now. No one was ever going to take the trouble to save you, old fellow…’”
-Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
“…Just reopened to accommodate the rush of souls, of cold plaster where all the rats have died, only their ghosts, still as cave-painting, fixed stubborn and luminous in the walls….”
-Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
“Everybody becomes indurate in the requirements of his own life.”
-Introduction to Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria by Philip Rieff
“Her intelligence and imagination had rendered her the chief victim in a cast of characters made up exclusively of victims, in one degree or another.”
-Introduction to Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria by Philip Rieff
“Behind her the four weeks, the evocation of far is a peaceful corridor paved with unflagging and tranquil faith and peopled with kind and nameless faces and voices…”
-Light in August by William Faulkner
“He was a hard man. Softness and gentleness and youth (he was just forty) and almost everything else except a kind of stubborn and despairing fortitude and the bleak heritage of his bloodpride had been sweated out of him.”
-Light in August by William Faulkner
“…The archaic will always return, the future parody the past, in cruel repetitions.”
-Introduction to Sexuality and the Psychology of Love by Philip Rieff
“He walked out of the party one night because somebody used the word ‘creampuff,’ it seemed maliciously, in his hearing.”
-The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
“Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.”
-As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
