“یک بار مردی در میخانه ای از من پرسید کتاب ها چه مزه ای می دهند،(( حالا دقیقش را هم نگفتی، نگفتی)). جوابش را از قبل آماده داشتم، اما برای اینکه کاری نکرده باشم که او از بیخ احساس حماقت کند، کمی وانمود کردم دارم به سؤالش فکر می کنم و بعد گفتم (( رفیق، با در نظر گرفتن شکاف عمیقی که میان تمامی تجربیات شما و من وجود دارد،برای اینکه نزدیک ترین طعم را به آن طعم منحصر به فرد به شما نشان دهم باید بگویم که کتاب ها، همین طوری اش اگر را بخواهید، همان طعم بوی قهوه را می دهند.)) حرف دهن پُرکنی بود، و از طوری که او دوباره سراغ نوشیدنی اش رفت می توانستم بگویم حسابی خوراک فکر کردن به او داده ام.” FantasyNovelReading BooksAmerican LiteratureرمانSocial Criticismادبیات آمریکاکتاب و کتاب خوانیفانتزینقد اجتماعی Book:Firmin : Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife Source: Firmin : Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
“At meals Mama and Papa would observe each other from opposite ends of the long table, and Mama's grey eyes would fly angry silences at Papa, who would catch them in his enormous mustache. Their marriage was a tall column of pain, like a fluted vase. Balanced precariously on the fricative point at which Mama's personality met Papa's chin, it was always about to fall over and smash.” RelationshipsMarriageChildhood MemoryUnhappy Family Book:Glass: A Novel Source: Glass: A Novel
“It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.” GivingCharacterNamesWeaknessIntellectDelusionTraitsPsychiatryGrandeurAvariceObsessiveAxiomsMasturbationPrecociousCharacter TraitDelusions Of Grandeur Author:Sam Savage
“I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory” ThinkingDoeFactsLastsMemoriesForeverInstant Author:Sam Savage
“Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.” Love IsUnrequited LoveUnrequited Author:Sam Savage
“I had learned from my reading that you can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won't have to be bored anymore.” FactsOrderReadingCan DoBoundsAwfulMiserableBored Author:Sam Savage
“Sometimes I think that all anyone needs in life is lots of popcorn and a few Lovelies” ThinkingNeedsSometimesLife IsPopcorn Author:Sam Savage
“I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious. It's the only secular vehicle for transcendence we have. It's an immediate self-validating experience. It lifts you beyond your mortal clay.” ThinkingArtSelfLastsReligiousMortalsLiftsVehicleSecularClayTranscendence Author:Sam Savage
