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we're all just feeding off the stored fat of a dream gone bad. You want soy sauce on that?

Nadie es intocable. Ni siquiera los mats. Begin me miró con tristeza. - Usted no es de aquí - dijo -. Eso se nota.

People envy me, people hate me. It is the price of success." This was news to me. People hate me on a dozen different worlds, and I've never considered myself a successful man.

You thought perhaps you would drink it away, the plague? Was that the plan? I thought perhaps I'd try to die drunk. Such ambition. And this from a dragon-slayer.

Standing up through the Citroen's open sunroof, my six-foot-three-inch, red-cheeked sister pointed a long, trembling finger at the perpetrator and with maximum indignation yelled: 'Ce merde-monsieur a justement crache dans ma derriere!' Her intended meaning is obvious, but what she said was, 'This shit-man just spat out into my butt!

James - Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit? Elizabeth - Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

I am only a literary lizard basking the day away beneath the great sun of Beauty. That's all.

Some Englishman once said marriage is a long dull meak with pudding served first

Do you know what Nabokov said about adultery in his lecture on Madame Bovary? He said it was 'a most conventional way to rise above the conventional'.

Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.

I think I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. Perhaps this is what Veronica called cowardice and I called being peaceable.

perhaps it only applies in the States, where emotional optimism is a constitutional duty

The emphasis is on the lost, the abandoned, the discarded sinners, God's detritus.

melodramatic, I agree, but I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance)

Truth to life, at the start, to be sure; yet once the process gets under way, truth to art is the greater allegiance

Pase lo que pase –escribió Flaubert cuando estalló la guerra franco-prusiana–, seguiremos siendo unos estúpidos.» ¿Simple pesimismo jactancioso? ¿O se trata de la necesaria aceleración de las expectativas, cuando aún no se puede pensar, actuar o escribir adecuadamente?

And yet sometimes I wonder if the wittiest, most resonant irony isn't just a well-brushed, well-educated coincidence

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?

The servants really were worse than the rats

any rational privateer would have long since scuttled southwards until the weather improved. No prize could be boarded in this. By