#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
the boy walks with his muddy feet… soul talking about recitals, virtuosi,… the lesser known novels of Dostoev… talking about how he corrected a w…
you go for these wenches, she said… you go for these whores, I’ll bore you. I don’t want to be shit on anymore… I said,
got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses
We were in the air twenty minutes when she took a mirror out of her purse and began to make up her face, mostly the eyes. She worked at her eyes with a small brush, concentrating on the...
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...
I took Tanya to the airport the next afternoon. We had a drink in the same bar. The high-yellow wasn’t around; all that leg was with somebody else. “No. You love sex and there’s nothing...
After Debra left for work the next morning I bathed, then tried to watch t.v. I walked around naked and noticed that I could be seen from the street through the front window. So I had a...
I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!
she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong
The Stone’s favorite carrier was Matthew Battles. Battles never came in with a wrinkled shirt on. In fact, everything he wore was new, looked new. The shoes, the shirts, the pants, the ...