Ligotti Conspiracy Quotes & Sayings

Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang. — George Burns

My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times! — Jean-Luc Bilodeau

I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker. — Rainbow Rowell

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will. — Marcus Garvey

By love, she probably meant she would die without being in love. By in
love, she meant the acuteness of the heart at the sudden sight of a
particular person or the way over a couple of years of interested
friendship one is suddenly stunned by the lungs' longing for more and
more breath in the presence of that friend, or nearly drowned to the
knees by the salty spring that seems to beat for years on our vaginal
shores. Not to omit all sorts of imaginings which assure great
spiritual energy for months and, when luck follows truth, years. — Grace Paley

Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against reality. This brings to mind the story of the woman who always cut off the end of the turkey when she put it in the oven. Her daughter asked her why, and her mother responded, "I don't know. My mother always did it." Then she went and asked her mother, who said, "I don't know. My mother always did it." The she went and asked her grandmother, who said, "The oven wasn't big enough." — Charlotte Sophia Kasl

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way. — Monica Seles

You know what must be done."
"No, I do not know what must be done. I do not routinely summon people from the grave and have them following me around! — Robin Bridges

As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people. — Thomas Ligotti

And if we're talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum. — Nic Pizzolatto

In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried by the largest sea of all: the sea of grace that flows steadily beneath the turmoil of events. And just as fish can't see the ocean they live in, we can't quite see the spirit that sustains us. — Mark Nepo

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job. — Frank Black

If it wasn't for coffee, I'd have no discernible personality at all. — David Letterman

I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk. — Richard Harris

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor. — Peter Drucker

I don't want to know what your favorite color is
but I do want to know what color you bleed
when you're with me. — Shinji Moon

I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there. — Justin Townes Earle