Mark Slouka Quotes
- Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free future, jacked into…
- Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.
- Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get…
- Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.
- Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge…
- It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.
- History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma…
- I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore…
- The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on…
- Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?
- Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.