“The idea was to have the accident and whatever explosion and fire was involved occur someplace isolated enough that no one else would see it, so that there would be as little an aspect of performance to the thing as I could manage and no temptation to spend my last few seconds trying to imagine what impressions the sight and sound of the impact might make on someone watching. I was partly concerned that it might be spectacular and dramatic and might look as if the driver was trying to go out in as dramatic a way as possible. This is the sort of shit we waste our lives thinking about.”
"Good Old Neon", Oblivion: Stories
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American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008Related quotes
“Try as I will, I don't see what might exist…”
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?”
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“One might have thought of sight, but who could think
Of what it sees, for all the ill it sees?”
Esthétique du Mal (1944)
Context: One might have thought of sight, but who could think
Of what it sees, for all the ill it sees?
Speech found the ear, for all the evil sound,
But the dark italics it could not propound.
And out of what sees and hears and out
Of what one feels, who could have thought to make
So many selves, so many sensuous worlds,
As if the air, the mid-day air, was swarming
With the metaphysical changes that occur,
Merely in living as and where we live.
Beth Pearson, "Has Howard got news for Boris?", The Herald (Glasgow), 13 November 2004, p. 15.
Explaining why he quit after a week as a management consultant.
2000s, 2004
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter II, Section III, p. 21
Source: The Truth About Forever
