"Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruceâ€”to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorneâ€”who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues."

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Source : David Markson (2007). “The Last Novel”, p.57, Counterpoint

David Markson

#Taken Quotes #Europe Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.”
“The longest suicide note in history.”

Source : Describing the Labour Party's 'New Hope for Britain' (1983), in Denis Healey 'The Time of My Life' (1989) ch. 23
“The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.”
“My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.”
“Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.”

Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
“(Raven) "Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal?" (Alexander) "If he's with the right girl.”
“Who says I'm not Superman?" You were looking at me with one eye closed against the sun. I shrugged "You would have recued me by now if you were Superman." I said quietly. "Who says I haven't? " Anyone would say you haven't. Anyone's just looking at it wrong then." You pushed yourself up a little, onto your elbows."Anyways, I can't steal you and rescue you. That would give me multiple personalities." And you don't have them already?”

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