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“what i really need is a dead man.”

— Chester Himes

“the enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself”

— John Barth

“a reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.”

— Donald Barthelme

“i know at last what i want to be when i grow up. when i grow up i want to be a little boy.”

— Joseph Heller

“make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.”

— Robert Walser

“everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.”

— Harry Crews

“inside the coop where he'll stay until he's killed, the rooster sings anthems to liberty because he was given two roosts.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“fate is the ultimate preexisting condition.”

— Mark Leyner

“A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible.”

— Elmore Leonard

“i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit.”

— Johnny Shaw

“don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do…

— William Gay

“the zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different. --Mrs.…

— padgett powell

“you just had to be still and have faith, that was the main thing.”

— Jim Dodge

“most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.”

— Jim Dodge