I’m looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension…

I’m looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

Sourced, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
(2000)

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All Uncle Larry is saying is that individuals have to accept responsibility for their own bad choices. If every time we choose a turd, society, at great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all. Maybe it boils down to the premium we want to place on liberty. - View Quote Details on All Uncle Larry is saying is that individuals have to…
On the poor use of grammar It’s a matter of usage. If a house is off-plumb and rickety and lets in the wind, you blame the mason, not the bricks. Our words are up to the job. It’s our syntax that’s limiting. - View Quote Details on On the poor use of grammar It’s a matter of…
In the end, we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that’s being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke. The soul is its punchline. - View Quote Details on In the end, we should simply imagine a joke; a…
I’m acquainted with a, uh, gentleman who claims that the extent to which a society focuses on the needs of its lowest common denominator is the extent to which that society’ll be mired in mediocrity. Whereas, if we would aim the bulk of our support at the brightest, most talented, most virtuous instead, then they would have the wherewithal to solve a lot of our problems, to uplift the whole culture, enlighten it or something, so that eventually there wouldn’t be so many losers and weaklings impeding evolution and dragging the whole species down. He claims that martyrs like you just perpetuate human misery by catering to it. He believes individuals have to take responsibility for their own lives and accept the consequences of their choices. - View Quote Details on I’m acquainted with a, uh, gentleman who claims that the…
To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally deployed in the course of a literate life. To cynics, Z is just an S with a stick up its butt. - View Quote Details on To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a…
There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act. - View Quote Details on There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the…
Let me see if I can put it in words that even the inebriated might understand. - View Quote Details on Let me see if I can put it in words…
The only meat in the world sweeter, hotter, and pinker than Amanda’s twat is Carolina barbecue. - View Quote Details on The only meat in the world sweeter, hotter, and pinker…
People of zee wurl, Relax! - View Quote Details on People of zee wurl, Relax!
Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard. - View Quote Details on Birth and death were easy. It was life that was…