If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ..." and ...the "Ubi nihil vales ..." both already in Murphy and neither very rational.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. Nothing is more real th...an nothing. They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly.... News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction i...s so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it ... from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real ... what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finis, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each othe...r. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can't be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline--it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nucl...ear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas tree ...will bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the s...ingle real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »