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There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books.
Tropic of Cancer (1934)
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Tropic of Cancer (1934)
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.
Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Sleep, Napoleon! It was not your ideas they wanted, it was your corpse.
Tropic of Cancer (1934)
And then he describes... how he bent down and kissed her breasts, and how, after he had kissed them fervidly, he stuffed them back into her corsage, or whatever it is they call these things.
Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race
Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Even before the music begins there is that bored look on people's faces. A polite form of self-imposed torture, the concert.
Tropic of Cancer (1934)
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens.
Tropic of Cancer (1934)