"Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order."

-- Georges Bataille

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“Sometimes the unexpected does happen. Once, this exquisite woman fell for me. After we made love, she gave me a check for a hundred dollars. I said, "Honey, I don't get paid for sex." She said, "This is hush money."”
“The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.”
“I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?”

Source : "'Matterhorn' Author On What It's Like 'To Go To War'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. August 30, 2011.
“We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.”
“You know whatâ€™s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.”
“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.”
“To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.”
“But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.”

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