From 2001 - 2004, on the main page of The Literary Brothel we would put up a quote (with comments) and keep it there until we got sick of it. Sometimes that was hours. Other times, months. Now we've got thirty or forty of these life-changing wisdom nuggets just lying around, blocking the entryway. Like tribbles.And so, The Literary Brothel presents the first installment of a series we mysteriously call "Five Quotes We Like" where we will publish five of those quotes from our archive at one time.
WARNING: Read at your own risk (of enlightenment)
Five Quotes We Like - Part I: Writers Tell Us Things About Life
“Remember then: there is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.”
-Leo Tolstoy
"I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth."
-Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye
“What they did know was that you couldn’t go anywhere without stepping in their pearly shit, and it was hard to hand up clothes, pull weeds or just sit on the front porch when robins were flying and dying all around you.”
-Toni Morrison, from Sula
"His wife (The Literary Brothel) was shrill, languid, handsome and horrible."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, from The Great Gatsby (parentheses our own)
"We mix drinks out of the insane liquors of the imagination and are perpetually surprised that no one staggers."
-Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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