Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 1, p. 28
Source: The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977)
Context: Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbors, his church, his priest, his town, his state, his country, and the country from which he emigrated. Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the sun or the stars, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.
“If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
Source: The Charioteer (1953), p. 285
Context: You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets so that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.
“What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.”
Variant: No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
Source: Damned (2011)
“As a half-resident of Wiltshire I feel very loyal to the county.”
About Wiltshire during a visit to County Hall in Trowbridge .
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall opens County Hall Wiltshire.gov 26 June 2014 http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/latestnews.htm?aid=153230
“And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now….”
Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex
“The world doesn’t give a damn what we feel or want. Only what we are, and what we do.”
Source: Street Lethal (1983), Chapter 17 “Alpha-Alpha” (p. 250)
Source: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 24.
