“How learned and fine we believed ourselves to be! How shitty of the world to deal with us this way.” — Robert Stone Learned Copy Share Image
I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it. — Robert Stone Attachment Copy Share Image
I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in… — Robert Stone Chapters Copy Share Image
“Like many visitors, they had been unnerved by the inimitable creepiness of the Holy Sepulchre, a grimly gaudy, theopathical Turkish bathhouse where… — Robert Stone Children Copy Share Image
I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I… — Robert Stone America Copy Share Image
“He had undertaken a little assay at the good fight and found that neither the good nor the fight was left to… — Robert Stone Good fight Copy Share Image
I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I… — Robert Stone Allegiance Copy Share Image
“Sleeping and waking, the notion of being lost, of having wandered out of the right life, kept turning up in different guises.… — Robert Stone Heart Copy Share Image
“There were icons of the Magdalen on the walls and paintings in the Western manner, all kitsch, trash. Mary M., Lucas thought,… — Robert Stone Big city Copy Share Image
“I’ve been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this.” — Robert Stone Cynical-humor Copy Share Image
Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow? — Robert Stone Morning Copy Share Image
It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it. — Robert Stone Country Copy Share Image
If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about. — Robert Stone Havens Copy Share Image
I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist. — Robert Stone Fairs Copy Share Image
The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful. — Robert Stone Know Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid to ask for a rise, Sagittarius. Your boss always pay you less than your work is actually worth!” — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely. — Robert Stone Books Copy Share Image
“But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book.… — Robert Stone America Copy Share Image
You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want… — Robert Stone Depends Copy Share Image
“The mixtures of shells and light makes you confused and unhappy. One side employing the force of he other merging. You're one… — Robert Stone Light Copy Share Image
The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer,… — Robert Stone Able Copy Share Image
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought… — Robert Stone Acid Copy Share Image
If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any… — Robert Stone Alive Copy Share Image
“My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism.” — Robert Stone Optimism Copy Share Image
I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill… — Robert Stone Doing you Copy Share Image
“The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own… — Robert Stone American culture Copy Share Image
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is… — Robert Stone Art Copy Share Image
You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other… — Robert Stone Character Copy Share Image
“The richest fuckin' people in the richest country in the world - you gonna tell them some little guy in a hole… — Robert Stone Revolutionaries Copy Share Image
“He would keep what he would always believe had to be a false memory of her falling like a booted Icarus out… — Robert Stone Electric light Copy Share Image
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm… — Robert Stone 19th century Copy Share Image
“The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in… — Robert Stone Education Copy Share Image
“The border between the State of Israel and the occupied Gaza Strip had always reminded him of the line between Tijuana and… — Robert Stone Gaza strip Copy Share Image
It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that? — Robert Stone Creepy Copy Share Image
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