I Love Dick Quotes
"The only pleasure that remains once you’ve decided you know better than the world."
"To be truly oneself means accepting this ineluctable original chain that is unique to our bodies."
"Politics means accepting that things happen for a reason."
"If you’re prepared to do something anyway it doesn’t matter if you’re afraid."
"I learned that if you see stars, which after day 20 was every ten minutes, you bend down and tie your shoelaces."
"The arteries of the hand & arm that write lead straight into the heart."
"History isn’t dialectical, it’s essential! Some things will never go away!"
"The greatest bravery is in admitting being lonely."
"When you’re writing in real time you have to revise a lot."
"Everything’s separate and discrete and there is no macrocosm, really."
"Suburban Chetumal looked kind of like Mar Vista—stucco bungalows and tiny yards—except there were no bus stops, the bus stopped for anyone who flagged it down."
"Sleepy dullness opening up to startlingly blue water, every particle of air locked into a glistening frame."
"Must people starve so that we can live the way we do? It’s a question that can drive you crazy."
"Being a feminist meant refusing to be a co-dependent fuck-up."
"Mayan people have an ability to be completely communal. They are very humble, very sweet, very giving."
"The road behind the town of Fillmore running to what used to be the National Condor Preserve is the venue for illegal drag races."
"Who was it, Marx or Wittgenstein, who said that 'every question, problem, contains the seeds of its own answer or solution through negation'?"
"Hundreds of little colored Christmas lights were draped around the cactus plants outside your house."
"The only way to understand the large is through the small."
"By recording every single memo, phone call, letter, meeting that took place around the strike, Frundt describes how casually terror happens."
"Because if the only material we have to work with in America is our own lives, shouldn’t we be making case studies?"
"It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered us. We have to think that it has not lowered us but revealed to us our true level."
"I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship."
"How do you continue when the connection to the other person is broken (when the connection is broken to yourself)?"
"I’m just trying to be honest," I’d confessed to you that morning, and it sounded oh so lame.
"I hate ninety percent of everything around me! But then, the rest I really love. Perhaps too strongly."
"For anyone who likes to read literature, I Love Dick is a good read."
"There’s no way of communicating with you in writing, because texts, as we all know, feed upon themselves, become a game."
"Lived experience does not mean sensible qualities. It means intensification."
"I’m thrown into this weird position, reactive—like Charlotte Stant to Sylvère’s Maggie Verver."
"The game is real, or even better than, reality, and better than is what it’s all about."
"Better than means stepping out into complete intensity."
"There's no fixed point of self but it exists & by writing you can somehow chart that movement."
"Every question, once it’s formulated, contains its own internal truth. We have to stop diverting ourselves with false questions."
"Intersubjectivity occurs at the moment of orgasm: when things break down."
"Anorexia is an active stance. The creation of an involuted body."
"If I’m not touched it becomes impossible to eat."
"She always destroys the latest preconception...she subverts authority."
"In the months before she left Jerome, she’d started writing love letters to a man who didn’t love her."