For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, a...t least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are done for--a living dead man--not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides ...the "mystery" of life. Not for nothing is hatred still the best tonic ever discovered, for which any organism, however feeble, has a tolerance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All my life I've been running, from welfare officers, thugs, my father. See, there they are [the killers]. There on the bridge. I'...m a dead man. Nosseros told me that. He told me. He said, "You got it all, but you're a dead man, Harry Fabian."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The ...other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »