“It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.”
― Robert Silverberg, quote from Dying Inside
“I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.”
― Robert Silverberg, quote from Dying Inside
“I don't understand why anybody old enough to know the score ever gets married, anyway. Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature and the insecure and the ignorant. We who see through such institutions should be content to live together without legal coercion”
― Robert Silverberg, quote from Dying Inside
“Kafamda bir sessizlik yuvarı büyüyor, genişledikçe genişleyip bütün kafatasımı kaplayarak kocaman, bomboş bir alan yaratıyor. Yavaş ilerleyen bir gerçeklik sızıntısından muzdaribim. Şeylerin sadece sınırlarını görüyorum, özlerini değil, üstelik sınırlar bile belirsizleşiyor artık.”
― Robert Silverberg, quote from Dying Inside
“I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us.”
― Robert Silverberg, quote from Dying Inside
“He often has followed current fads and modes in an attempt to affiliate himself more firmly with the structures of contemporary existence.”
― Robert Silverberg, quote from Dying Inside
Robert Silverberg
Born place: in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
Born date January 15, 1935
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“What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching
her.
"A dragon." When he looked bewildered she lifted her arm and pointed to the sky in the southeast. "Right there—that cloud—what do you see when you look at it?"
"A fat cloud."
Alexandra rolled her eyes at him. "What else do you see?"
He was quiet for a moment studying the sky. "Five more fat clouds
and three thin ones.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Something Wonderful
“You can rest with me until somebody comes to get you. We will not say anything. We can rest.”
― Kaye Gibbons, quote from Ellen Foster
“Мисълта ми вече се приплъзваше: вместо крехкия му тил се очертаваха много по-мощните вратове на мъже, които бях познавал или просто мярвал, оглеждах ги през погледа на жена, внезапно разбирайки с ужасяваща яснота, че мъжете нищо не контролират, нищо не владеят, че всички те са деца и дори играчки, създадени за удоволствие на жените, едно толкова по-ненаситно и върховно удоволствие, колкото повече мъжете си мислят, че контролират нещата, че владеят жените, докато в действителност жените ги поглъщат, унищожават властта им и размиват контрола им, за да вземат в крайна сметка от тях много повече, отколкото те са искали да дадат. Мъжете съвсем искрено вярват, че жените са уязвими и тази уязвимост трябва или да се използва, или да се закриля, докато жените се надсмиват снизходително и с любов или с презрение над детинската и безкрайна уязвимост на мъжете, над тяхната наранимост, тази толкова близка до загубата на траен контрол крехкост, над постоянно надвисналия провал, над въплътената в силната плът пустота. Несъмнено, именно поради това жените убиват толкова рядко. Те страдат много повече, но винаги ще имат последната дума. Пиех си чая. Ханика бе оправил леглото ми с всички одеяла, които бе успял да открие; взех две и ги оставих на дивана в предната стая, където спеше. Затворих вратата и набързо мастурбирах, после заспах на мига, с оплескани със сперма ръце и корем.”
― Jonathan Littell, quote from The Kindly Ones
“The sky was a feather blanket of clouds, save for one blue hole in the fabric. A blue cloud in a white sky.”
― Marie Rutkoski, quote from The Winner's Crime
“No, it's not, Holmesy. You pick your endings, and your beginnings. You get to pick the frame, you know? Maybe you don't choose what's in the picture, but you decide the frame.”
― John Green, quote from Turtles All the Way Down
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