"Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of……" — Brian Evenson
"Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert at creating a quietly building sense of dread while claiming to do something as straightforward as describe lost films—like those conversations you have in which you realize only too late that what you actually talking about and what you think you are talking about are not the same thing at all. With Rombes, Two Dollar Radio deftly demonstrates why it is rapidly becoming the go-to press for innovative fiction."
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6 Quotes by Brian Evenson
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I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps…
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There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If…
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Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end…
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Truth cannot be imparted. [] It must be inflicted.
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Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the…
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The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
— R. D. Laing
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There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood…
— Frank Sinatra
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Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism,…
— Martin Chemnitz
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Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.
— Laura Schlessinger
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Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee…
— Michael Foley
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I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.
— E L Doctorow
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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines,…
— Lord Byron
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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
— Germaine Greer
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When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
— Frank Sinatra
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
— Thomas Hobbes
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
— Oscar Wilde
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