"I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes……" — 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 tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody's error in judgement."
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21 Quotes by Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte has 21 quotes on this site.
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Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day.
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I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at…
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I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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