Matthew Sharpe quotes

“That they dared make a town of this wet and sucking thing that vied with my foot for my boot at every step bespoke the glorious and yearning bullshit of men's souls.”
-- Matthew Sharpe

Source : Matthew Sharpe (2007). “Jamestown: A Novel”, p.176, Soft Skull Press

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“A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself.”
-- Matthew Sharpe

Source : Matthew Sharpe (2007). “Jamestown: A Novel”, p.71, Soft Skull Press

#Glasses Quotes

“Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.”
-- Matthew Sharpe

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“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“My new shorty got a gymnastic back, '87 emerald green on a classic Jag. She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad; She had the club foot, with that little arm, I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.”

“I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.”

“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”

Source : Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.135, Penguin

“..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.”

“So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.”

“What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women — organized women — do is to fret about his shirt?”

“There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.”