A couple quotes that jumped out at me from
"Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany," a book I'm enjoying immensely. Garner is Dwight Garner, a NYT book critic. It's a very smart sequence of quotations.
Just a few more:
"I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it."—William S. Burroughs
"Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation" —W. H. Auden
"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane" —H. P. Lovecraft
"A monster is a person who has stopped pretending" —Colson Whitehead, “A Psychotronic Childhood”
"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split" —Raymond Chandler
"If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with
Let’s Make a Deal" —Fran Lebowitz,
in The New York Times
"Don’t own anything you wouldn’t leave out in the rain" —Gary Snyder
"All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante"—Samuel Beckett
I hope that annoyed some of you or what's the point?
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