{"author":"Hubert Selby Jr.","author_id":"Hubert+Selby+Jr.","total_quotes":24,"quotes":[{"text":"I have joined an ancient fraternity. I have killed a man.","author":"Hubert Selby Jr.","tags":["killing","murder"],"id":14123,"author_id":"Hubert+Selby+Jr."},{"text":"There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon. ","author":"Hubert Selby Jr.","tags":["change","city","night","reality","stars"],"id":40759,"author_id":"Hubert+Selby+Jr."},{"text":"They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs. ","author":"Hubert Selby Jr.","tags":["happiness","satisfaction"],"id":56023,"author_id":"Hubert+Selby+Jr."},{"text":"Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ","author":"Hubert Selby Jr.","tags":["responsibility"],"id":68205,"author_id":"Hubert+Selby+Jr."},{"text":"Life was not longer something to endure, but to live. ","author":"Hubert Selby Jr.","tags":["endurance","life"],"id":77129,"author_id":"Hubert+Selby+Jr."},{"text":"Bodies need poison. Withdrawals without it. Toxin-free airs a killer.","author":"Hubert Selby Jr.","tags":["addiction","poison","toxins"],"id":79275,"author_id":"Hubert+Selby+Jr."},{"text":"He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend. ","author":"Hubert Selby Jr.","tags":["confusion","defeat","tiredness"],"id":89013,"author_id":"Hubert+Selby+Jr."},{"text":"...And he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.","author":"Hubert Selby Jr.","tags":["denial","television"],"id":90583,"author_id":"Hubert+Selby+Jr."},{"text":"They came close. Oh they came close. Was all set to put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger. But there was a computer glitch. Isnt that something? A stupid glitch and I had to wait a few days and then I saw the errors of my ways, saw so clearly that I was killing the wrong person. Its not me that needs killing, its them. Funny how things can change in the wink of an eye.","author":"Hubert Selby Jr.","tags":["guns","killing","suicide"],"id":144272,"author_id":"Hubert+Selby+Jr."},{"text":"I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.","author":"Hubert Selby Jr.","tags":["life","suffering"],"id":149714,"author_id":"Hubert+Selby+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}