Страница Artur Mikhlin

American Psycho, Dubrovsky, A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law

"But if you don't keep trying to make a difference, to live for a cause greater than yourself, you will die mentally and then you will die physically"

"Life with no peaks and valleys has no real beauty to it."

"One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been."

"In the perpetual meantime of a sheltered eternity, most are content to live, and not to dream. But in the hidden corners where the gods' gaze does not fall, there are those who dream of dreaming."

"It helps no one to be reductive. I believe that that we are here implies to some degree that there are forces larger than us. Now, we can get into the semanticalities... The very notion of belief itself can be rhetorically whittled to the bare nub of its meaning."

"…there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there."

"We're not here because we're free. We're here because we're not free. There's no escaping reason. No denying purpose. Because as we both know without purpose, we would not exist."

"Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man."

"In spite of everything you've done for them eventually, they will hate you"

"Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity."

"They won't fear it until they understand it. And they won't understand it until they've used it. Theory will take you only so far."

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

"A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man."

"I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution, not a changing Constitution. That is what I've meant when I've said that the Constitution is dead."