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We are spawn of woodland apes. No code has been undone. Neither faith nor reason will deliver us. We must look to the trees. — Sam Lipsyte

I wanted to have friends from all over the world in the way of a man who has no friends. — Sam Lipsyte

How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness. — Sam Lipsyte

I looked for Gary in all of the Gary places, but I was too early. These places were all haunted by the future of Gary. — Sam Lipsyte

Jincy Willett, Sam Lipsyte, Flannery O'Connor, and George Saunders. Oh, and I love Paul Rudnick in The New Yorker. — Pamela Paul

It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward. — Robert Lipsyte

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper. — Robert Lipsyte

The bullshit never ends. That's the main thing to remember. It never ends. — Sam Lipsyte

I was glad I'd remembered to shucksify my vocabulary in the company of children. — Sam Lipsyte

You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man. — Sam Lipsyte

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten's prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. — Sam Lipsyte

Everything's weird if you stare at it. — Sam Lipsyte

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine. — Sam Lipsyte

Judging by your face, the what-the-fuck nodes in your cerebral cortex must be a real light show. — Sam Lipsyte

Why do you think posers pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real. And they know their very desire for it disqualifies them. — Sam Lipsyte

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy. — Sam Lipsyte

You can't go walking through Mordor in naught but your skin. — Sam Lipsyte

She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality. — Sam Lipsyte

They weren't like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours. — Sam Lipsyte

You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own? — Sam Lipsyte

Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake. — Sam Lipsyte

The Brit's eyes had this pucker of awful witness. — Sam Lipsyte

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them. — Sam Lipsyte

His eyes had the ebb of his liver in them and he bore the air of a man who looks right at you and only sees the last of himself. — Sam Lipsyte

I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge. — Sam Lipsyte

Is this what Principal Fontana meant by the phrase 'well-rounded'?
It's fucking spherical, Catamounts. — Sam Lipsyte

Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day. — Sam Lipsyte

It was early, late, lockjaw hour. — Sam Lipsyte

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte

The newspaper Hilda gets delivered would call me evil. The one I buy on the corner would say it's more complicated than that. — Sam Lipsyte

We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons. — Sam Lipsyte

No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside. — Sam Lipsyte

If you flowed without incident or complaint through the global circuitry of want. — Sam Lipsyte

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me. — Sam Lipsyte

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know. — Sam Lipsyte