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"All disgust is originally disgust at touching."
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"His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers."

"This is the most I have ever been in the sewers in one place. If someone had said to me a month ago, 'Hey, Jackal, guess where you'll be spending most of your time in New Covington? Ankle-deep in shit!' I would've ripped their lips off."

"The vampire gagged. The muscles of its neck constricted, widened, constricted again, and it disgorged a six-inch-long metal cylinder onto my desk. The bloodsucker grasped it, twisted the cylinder's halves apart, and retrieved a roll of papers. "Photographs, Ghastek said, handing me a couple of sheets from the roll."That's disgusting."He is thirty years old, Ghastek said. "All his internal organs, with the exception of the heart, atrophied long ago. The throat makes for a very good storage cavity. People seem to prefer it to the anus.Translation: be happy I didn't pull it out of my ass. Thank the gods for small favors."

"I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?"
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"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."


"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."


"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."


"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."


"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."


"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion."


"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
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