The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
Louis-Ferdinand CelineSo many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers!.
Louis-Ferdinand CelineIn the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, itโs indispensable.
Louis-Ferdinand CelineAn unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.
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