“They tried to be too clever—and that was their undoing.”
— Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
BANKSY SUNDANCE FLOWER
(originally Released on hitRECord.org)They say he’s here! This is painted on the wall across the street from New Frontier.
“Sex is now a conceptual act, it’s probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other at all.”
— J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“I always had the sense with her that she didn’t suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.”
— Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
“This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“ If people lived forever — if they never got any older — if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy — do you think they’d bother to think hard about things, the way we’re doing now? I mean, we think about just about everything, more or less — philosophy, psychology, logic. Religion. Literature. I kinda think, if there were no such thing as death, that complicated thoughts and ideas like that would never come into the world. ”
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
