“They sought each other, missed each other, at cocktail parties, in train terminals, at flower shops, their fin de siecle Nokias gaining… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.” — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“They weren’t like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.” — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.” — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“You’re growing up. All you need to remember is that nothing changes. New technology, new markets, global interconnectivity, doesn’t matter. It’s still… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“We’d been walking in endless rectangles and now we were near the candy store again. The lights were out, the security gate… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Oh, do you, Milo? You’re so selfish. You don’t see the bigger picture.” “What’s the bigger picture?” “You’re still here looking for… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“I was also one of those people who hadn’t caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged to most of… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Fuck,” said Bernie. “Fuckwinky eyeballhead.” “No, Bernie. We don’t use those words.” “Which words?” “You know which words.” “You used them, Daddy.”… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Lee was my father’s lawyer, a mensch. But he’s been very sick. Cancer. Pancreatic.” “That’s one of the worst. A killer.” “Yes,… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“So, yes, I should have just surrendered, cinched the entitled scion her little pouch of entitlements, put in my calls to the… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Yes,” said Cooley. “That is the question, as the Bard might say.” “The Bard?” “What’s so funny?” said Cooley. “Nothing, sir,” I… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“You said you were having a dream.” “It’s true, I did.” “Was it the one where you’re inside the girl and you… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be expertly scheduled,… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own? — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Our friendship, for example, and how quickly we passed through each other, from fascinated strangers to loyal chums to relics of each other's world.… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow she’d look up tattoo removal. They were doing big things with lasers now. When Cal was just a little more stable, she’d break… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“I looked for Gary in all of the Gary places, but I was too early. These places were all haunted by the future of… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“The Rough Beast snorted. “You don’t get it at all, buddy. It’s not about wrestling. It’s about stories. We’re storytellers.” Caperton studied him. “Somebody… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“I needed to talk to Vargina, to straighten this out, but felt suddenly faint, headed for the deli across the street. Just standing in… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“You’re growing up. All you need to remember is that nothing changes. New technology, new markets, global interconnectivity, doesn’t matter. It’s still the rulers… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
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