“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city.”
Less Than Zero
“We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.”
“We Wear the Mask”
“Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I’ll dig with it.”
“Digging”
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
“Ozymandias”
“It was a pleasure to burn.”
Fahrenheit 451
“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.”
“The Charge of the Light Brigade”
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
Infinite Jest
“The time has come, the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”
“The Walrus and the Carpenter” from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
“‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Isn’t it pretty to think so?’”
The Sun Also Rises
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Wuthering Heights
Alfred Tennyson
Bret Easton Ellis
David Foster Wallace
Emily Brontë
Ernest Hemingway
Lewis Carrol
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ray Bradbury
Seamus Heaney
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