"Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talentâ€¦ this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare."

-- Clifton Fadiman

#Book Quotes #Character Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.”
“Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.”
“When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.”
“Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where you don't want to. Be your own men; do what you want, and don't hurt anybdoy”
“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”
“The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.”
“But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.”
“The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment.”

Source : John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.26, Taylor & Francis

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