Quotes from two of my favorite authors. Enjoy and go get their books for the summer. I implore you!
William S. Burroughs
1. "A ghost in daylight on a crowded street."-from Junky.
2. "Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!" -from The Soft Machine
3. "A functioning police state needs no police." -from Naked Lunch
4. "Bureaus die when the structure of the state collapse. They are as helpless and unfit for independent existence as a displaced tapeworm, or a virus that has killed the host." -from Naked Lunch
5. "Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside." -from Junky.
Vladimir Nabokov
1. "What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do God and Devil combine to form a live dog?"- from Despair.
2. "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns." -opening lines of Lolita
3. "Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!" -from Lolita
4. "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
by the false azure in the windowpane;" -from Pale Fire
5. "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a child." -from Speak, Memory
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