--- title: "14 Quote Quotes By Sam Lipsyte" description: "14 Quote quotes by Sam Lipsyte. Plus more from Sam Lipsyte and more Quote sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/sam-lipsyte-11160_fitness_they-sought-each-other-missed-each-other_1444977.jpg" --- > [“They sought each other, missed each other, at cocktail parties, in train terminals, at flower shops, their fin de siecle Nokias gaining…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/they-sought-each-other-missed-each-other-at-cocktail-parties-in-train/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/sam-lipsyte-11160_fitness_they-sought-each-other-missed-each-other_1444977.jpg) > [“We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/we-are-going-to-eat-ice-cream-and-we-are-going-to-eat-shit-the-trick/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/679/sam-lipsyte-11160_ice-cream_we-are-going-to-eat-ice-cream-and-we-are_768799.jpg) > [“She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/she-liked-reality-shows-the-best-and-then-the-shows-that-purported-to/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38d/sam-lipsyte-11160_heart_she-liked-reality-shows-the-best-and-the_667322.jpg) > [“You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/you-pay-a-whore-to-make-you-feel-like-a-man-you-fund-a-philharmonic/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/117/sam-lipsyte-11160_quote_you-pay-a-whore-to-make-you-feel-like-a_2054997.jpg) > [“They weren’t like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/they-weren-t-like-dolls-because-dolls-had-no-feelings-kids-had/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de0/sam-lipsyte-11160_quote_they-weren-t-like-dolls-because-dolls-ha_999692.jpg) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/lee-was-my-father-s-lawyer-a-mensch-but-he-s-been-very-sick-cancer/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/084/sam-lipsyte-11160_parenting_lee-was-my-father-s-lawyer-a-mensch-but_2986060.jpg) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/you-re-growing-up-all-you-need-to-remember-is-that-nothing-changes/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/145/sam-lipsyte-11160_expensive_you-re-growing-up-all-you-need-to-rememb_539841.jpg) > [“So, yes, I should have just surrendered, cinched the entitled scion her little pouch of entitlements, put in my calls to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/so-yes-i-should-have-just-surrendered-cinched-the-entitled-scion-her/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/sam-lipsyte-11160_cunt_so-yes-i-should-have-just-surrendered-ci_2661580.jpg) > [“We’d been walking in endless rectangles and now we were near the candy store again. The lights were out, the security gate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/we-d-been-walking-in-endless-rectangles-and-now-we-were-near-the/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9b/sam-lipsyte-11160_cybersecurity_we-d-been-walking-in-endless-rectangles_1801036.jpg) > [“Yes,” said Cooley. “That is the question, as the Bard might say.” “The Bard?” “What’s so funny?” said Cooley. “Nothing, sir,” I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/yes-said-cooley-that-is-the-question-as-the-bard-might-say-the-bard/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36d/sam-lipsyte-11160_quote_yes-said-cooley-that-is-the-question-as_2806837.jpg) > [“You said you were having a dream.” “It’s true, I did.” “Was it the one where you’re inside the girl and you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/you-said-you-were-having-a-dream-it-s-true-i-did-was-it-the-one-where/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8af/sam-lipsyte-11160_dreams_you-said-you-were-having-a-dream-it-s-tr_3006440.jpg) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/oh-do-you-milo-you-re-so-selfish-you-don-t-see-the-bigger-picture/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/sam-lipsyte-11160_bigger-picture_oh-do-you-milo-you-re-so-selfish-you-don_1431993.jpg) > [“I was also one of those people who hadn’t caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged to most of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/i-was-also-one-of-those-people-who-hadn-t-caught-up-with-the-latest/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4dd/sam-lipsyte-11160_high-school_i-was-also-one-of-those-people-who-hadn_857474.jpg) > [“Fuck,” said Bernie. “Fuckwinky eyeballhead.” “No, Bernie. We don’t use those words.” “Which words?” “You know which words.” “You used them, Daddy.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/fuck-said-bernie-fuckwinky-eyeballhead-no-bernie-we-don-t-use-those/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/sam-lipsyte-11160_ice-cream_fuck-said-bernie-fuckwinky-eyeballhead-n_1270994.jpg) ## Other authors on Quote ## More by Sam Lipsyte > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/when-you-work-at-home-fellow-alums-discipline-is-the-supreme-virtue/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [“It was early, late, lockjaw hour.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/it-was-early-late-lockjaw-hour/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/you-think-you-know-yourself-the-world-you-believe-you-ve-got-a-bead/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/our-friendship-for-example-and-how-quickly-we-passed-through-each/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/i-d-become-one-of-those-mistakes-you-sometimes-find-in-an-office-a/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/tomorrow-she-d-look-up-tattoo-removal-they-were-doing-big-things-with/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [“I looked for Gary in all of the Gary places, but I was too early. These places were all haunted by the future of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/i-looked-for-gary-in-all-of-the-gary-places-but-i-was-too-early-these/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/dept-of-speculation-is-gorgeous-funny-a-profound-and-profoundly/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/the-rough-beast-snorted-you-don-t-get-it-at-all-buddy-it-s-not-about/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [“I needed to talk to Vargina, to straighten this out, but felt suddenly faint, headed for the deli across the street. Just standing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/i-needed-to-talk-to-vargina-to-straighten-this-out-but-felt-suddenly/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/you-re-growing-up-all-you-need-to-remember-is-that-nothing-changes/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/i-m-a-citizen-of-the-republic-of-empathy/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/this-country-was-built-on-the-backs-of-dudes-who-drank-on-buses-what/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/the-bullshit-never-ends-that-s-the-main-thing-to-remember-it-never/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) > [Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/stuff-me-in-a-tutu-and-let-s-screen-experimental-videos-all-day/) [Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/quote/sam-lipsyte/#itemlist", "name": "14 Quote Quotes By Sam Lipsyte", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“They sought each other, missed each other, at cocktail parties, in train terminals, at flower shops, their fin de siecle Nokias gaining symbolic power with each scene.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sam Lipsyte" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/they-sought-each-other-missed-each-other-at-cocktail-parties-in-train/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/sam-lipsyte-11160_fitness_they-sought-each-other-missed-each-other_1444977.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/sam-lipsyte-11160_fitness_they-sought-each-other-missed-each-other_1444977.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/sam-lipsyte-11160_fitness_they-sought-each-other-missed-each-other_1444977.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“They sought each other, missed each other, at cocktail parties, in train terminals, at flower shops, their…” — Sam Lipsyte", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. 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The lights were out, the security gate down. We leaned up against the wall of a bank and I could feel the cool stone on my back, the billions of dollars thrumming through wires beneath and behind me, or on the night waves above. I wasn’t quite sure how they traveled. 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Am I not?” “Of course.” “If you prick me, do I not bleed, you scat-gobbling, mother-rimming prick?” Occasionally Dean Cooley reverted to a vocabulary more suited to his marine years, but some maintained it was only when he felt threatened, or stretched for time. “Yes, sir,” I said.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sam Lipsyte" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/yes-said-cooley-that-is-the-question-as-the-bard-might-say-the-bard/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36d/sam-lipsyte-11160_quote_yes-said-cooley-that-is-the-question-as_2806837.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36d/sam-lipsyte-11160_quote_yes-said-cooley-that-is-the-question-as_2806837.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36d/sam-lipsyte-11160_quote_yes-said-cooley-that-is-the-question-as_2806837.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Yes,” said Cooley. “That is the question, as the Bard might say.” “The Bard?” “What’s so funny?” said…” — Sam Lipsyte", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“You said you were having a dream.” “It’s true, I did.” “Was it the one where you’re inside the girl and you are pumping her and pumping her and you are so happy but then it turns out it’s not a girl, it’s really one of those super poisonous box jellyfish, and it stings you and you are screaming and screaming and the sky rains the diarrhea of babies?” “The . . . no, I don’t think so.” “I get that sometimes. 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You’re so selfish. You don’t see the bigger picture.” “What’s the bigger picture?” “You’re still here looking for handouts. Who’s going to take care of me?” “I’m on my knees here, Mom. Not for me, for my family. For my wife. For a beautiful grandson you have totally ignored.” “He’s kind of a brat. I’ll be in his life when he gets a little impulse control.” “He’s not even four.” “I have needs. I’m tired of this child-worshipping culture. You’re just a slave to it, Milo.” “I’m only trying to be a decent dad.” “Don’t waste your time. It’s not in your genes. Besides, try making some money. That might be a good dad move. For heaven’s sake, the system’s rigged for white men and you still can’t tap in.” “You’re right, Mom. What can I say? But still, it would mean a lot to me if you made a little more of an effort with Bernie.” “Bernie schmernie. This is my decade.” “Okay, you wrinkled old spidercunt, have it your way.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sam Lipsyte" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/oh-do-you-milo-you-re-so-selfish-you-don-t-see-the-bigger-picture/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/sam-lipsyte-11160_bigger-picture_oh-do-you-milo-you-re-so-selfish-you-don_1431993.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/sam-lipsyte-11160_bigger-picture_oh-do-you-milo-you-re-so-selfish-you-don_1431993.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/sam-lipsyte-11160_bigger-picture_oh-do-you-milo-you-re-so-selfish-you-don_1431993.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Oh, do you, Milo? You’re so selfish. You don’t see the bigger picture.” “What’s the bigger picture?” “You’re…” — Sam Lipsyte", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I was also one of those people who hadn’t caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged to most of them. She passed most evenings befriending men who had tried to date-rape her in high school, but I was still stuck in the last virtual community, a sad place to be, like Europe, say, during the Black Death. Whenever I cruised this site, with its favorites lists and its paeans to somebody’s cousin’s gas station art gallery, I could not help but think of medieval corpses in the spring-thaw mud, buboes sprouted in every armpit and anus, black bile curling out of frozen mouths. Those of us still cursed with life wandered the blasted dales of this stricken network, wept and moaned and flogged ourselves with frayed AC adaptors, called out for God to strike us dead, or else let us find somebody who liked similar bands.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sam Lipsyte" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/i-was-also-one-of-those-people-who-hadn-t-caught-up-with-the-latest/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4dd/sam-lipsyte-11160_high-school_i-was-also-one-of-those-people-who-hadn_857474.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4dd/sam-lipsyte-11160_high-school_i-was-also-one-of-those-people-who-hadn_857474.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4dd/sam-lipsyte-11160_high-school_i-was-also-one-of-those-people-who-hadn_857474.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I was also one of those people who hadn’t caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged…” — Sam Lipsyte", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Fuck,” said Bernie. “Fuckwinky eyeballhead.” “No, Bernie. We don’t use those words.” “Which words?” “You know which words.” “You used them, Daddy.” “I made a mistake. I am sorry I said that word. It isn’t helping with our problem.” “What’s our problem?” “There may be no school today.” “That’s okay,” said Bernie. “It’ll be okay.” We weren’t sure where he had picked up that becalming phrase, probably from us, as we tried to talk ourselves out of the awful lucidity certain days afforded. The whole mirthless dwindle of things would suddenly pull into focus, the crabbed, moneyless exhaustion that stood in for our lives, and Maura and I would both start the chatter, the cheap pep: It’s okay, it’s going to be okay, we’ll get through this. When Bernie repeated these bromides, he sounded seventy years old. It broke your heart, as did about forty-three percent of the things Bernie said and did. About twenty-seven percent of the things he said and did made you want to scream and banish him to his childproofed room, or do much more heinous and ingenious things, just so he’d get the point, whatever the point could be with an almost-four-year-old, but still, to bury him alive and then save him at the last minute, or tell him that the state had passed a law against ice cream and he would go to prison if he even thought about it, because they now had the technology to detect illegal mint-chocolate-chip cogitation, had, in fact, the chips for it, seemed, if not conducive to his development, at least on some level deserved. Thirty percent of what Bernie said and did was either on the bubble or else utterly inscrutable, just the jolts and stutters of a factory-fresh brain working out the kinks.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sam Lipsyte" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/fuck-said-bernie-fuckwinky-eyeballhead-no-bernie-we-don-t-use-those/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/sam-lipsyte-11160_ice-cream_fuck-said-bernie-fuckwinky-eyeballhead-n_1270994.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/sam-lipsyte-11160_ice-cream_fuck-said-bernie-fuckwinky-eyeballhead-n_1270994.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/sam-lipsyte-11160_ice-cream_fuck-said-bernie-fuckwinky-eyeballhead-n_1270994.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Fuck,” said Bernie. “Fuckwinky eyeballhead.” “No, Bernie. 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