9 quotes
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
To be an existentialist, one must be able to feel oneself — one must know one’s desires, one’s rages,one’s anguish, one must be aware of the character of one’s frustration and know what would satisfy it.The over-civilized man can be an existentialist only if it is chic, and deserts it quickly for the next chic.
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
"Advertisement for 'Games and Ends'", Pt. 5
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
I had my good looks, my blond hair, my height, build, and bullfighting school, I suppose I became one of the Village equivalents of an Eagle Scout badge for the girls. I was one of the credits needed for a diploma in the sexual humanities.
Advertisements for Myself (1959)