Interlude “The Last Mistake” section 1 (p. 179)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)
“Liquor does this? Even after you’re sober?”
“A cruel joke, isn’t it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems.”
Interlude “The Last Mistake” section 1 (p. 179)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)
“Price tags advertise your pride.”
Lyrics, A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)
“I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.”
Humboldt's Gift (1975), p. 159
General sources
Source: Designing the Future (2007), p.81
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
Une oeuvre où il y a des théories est comme un objet sur lequel on laisse la marque du prix.
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, part VII: Time Regained, chapter III, "An Afternoon Party at the House of the Princesse de Guermantes" ( French version http://web.archive.org/web/20010708070436/http://gallica.bnf.fr/proust/TempsRetrouve.htm and English translation http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/proust/marcel/p96t/chapter3.html).
Misattributed
“It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.”
Source: Dead Until Dark
