Evel Knievel
- Evel Knievel
I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell you something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at 80 mph.
Margaret Atwood
- The Handmaid's Tale
But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
Margaret Atwood
- Cat's Eye
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.
Cormac McCarthy
- Blood Meridian: or the Evening Redness in the West
For the next two weeks they would ride by night, they would make no fire. They had struck the shoes from their horses and filled the nailholes in with clay and those who still had tobacco used their pouches to spit in and they slept in caves and on bare stone. They rode through the tracks of their dismounting and they buried their stool like cats and they barely spoke at all.
Cormac McCarthy
- Blood Meridian: or the Evening Redness in the West
Now a member of the company seated there seemed to weigh the judge's words and some turned to look at the black. He stood an uneasy honoree and at length he stepped back from the firelight and the juggler rose and made a motion with the cards, sweeping them in a fan before him and then proceeding along the perimeter past the boots of the men with the cards outheld as if they would find their own subject.
Cormac McCarthy
- All the Pretty Horses
Underpinning all of it like the fiscal standard in commercial societies lay a bedrock of depravity and violence where in an egalitarian absolute every man was judged by a single standard and that was his readiness to kill.
Kurt Vonnegut
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut
- Breakfast of Champions
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year that sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
Drew Dee
- Married to the Sea
Old Doc Lombard poured bucket after bucket of different foods down the gullet of his prize horse Applejacks, finally coming to the conclusion that it would take an enormous amount of something - anything - to choke a horse.
