Sam Lipsyte Quotes
21 quotes
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Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day.
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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 tides…
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I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some…
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I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.
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Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.
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You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?
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This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.
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The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends.
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People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.
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Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.
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No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.
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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, from…
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There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.
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Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is the book he…
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Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the…
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The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people…
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Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in…
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I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.
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Everything's weird if you stare at it.
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I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.
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