Crime Fiction Satire Jukebox Quotes & Sayings

It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts as though it did not exist. This aesthetic ideal is called kitsch. — Milan Kundera

We pay people and reward them for greed and sleaze . When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure pay cheque and a tacky lingerie line ... selling filth so you can get your face on Time magazine ... From Jukebox — Saira Viola

Fear and excitement are chemically the same. Sadness is a hair away from melancholy. Melancholy is almost pleasure, brushing against happiness. It's all the fucking same. — Catherine Hanrahan

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified. — Alan W. Watts

Martyrdom is a lonely business.
Jukebox — Saira Viola

Reality Tv had become the preferred drug of choice for the George Clooney obsessed housewives strung out on empty promises and splintered dreams — Saira Viola

She was all slump and sag her spirit withering like a tuckering weed shambling for a way out — Saira Viola

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas. — Robert Kiyosaki

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering
a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead. — John Piper

There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Stop!" Jerome Squalor pleaded. "In the name of injustice! — Lemony Snicket

Everyday she loses a bit more of herself , every day another nail in her coffin house payments medical bills and middle aged isolation — Saira Viola