"Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character."

-- Mary McCarthy

#Sex Quotes #Character Quotes #Space Quotes

“You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. ItÂ´s not flashy like the others, or bleary â€“ your window gives of this nice, quiet light.”
“My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.”
“I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”
“... you just turned down the woman who put a marshmallow duck in your hot chocolate. I hope you feel like a real ***** now.”
“Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!”
“Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.”
“Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.”
“I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.”

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