. I’m perfectly willing to go through with it if it means anything to you.” “Doesn’t it mean anything to you? We could get along.” “Of course it does. But I don’t want anybody but you. I don’t want any one else.

“No, it isn’t. And once they take it away, you never get it back.”

But I don’t care about me. And I’ll do it and then everything will be fine.”

But if I do it, then it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you’ll like it?”

things will be like they were and you’ll love me?”

“if you don’t want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple.”

I’ve known lots of people that have done it.”

“And you think then we’ll be all right and be happy.”

The girl did not say anything.

“It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,” the man said. “It’s not really an operation at all.”

I don’t know,” the girl said. “Is it good with water?”

give you a spanking!

they look into Gordon's eyes!

These men make me sick! … I hate all three of them!

… I have wounded everyone … poor Charlie, what can I do for you? … if giving myself to you would bring you a moment's happiness, could I? … the idea used to be revolting … now, nothing about love seems important enough to be revolting … poor Charlie, he only thinks he ought to desire me! … dear Charlie, what a perfect lover he would make for one's old age! … what a perfect lover when one was past passion! …

Would he be grateful if he knew how much I'd really done for him?

This modernist choice of styles is not a sign of instability, (page 12)p. 12but an aspect of freedom. Diversity of style is liberal democracy in art – and, as we shall see, it was the Soviet and Nazi dictatorships that demanded an explicitly anti-modernist reversion to an official unity of realist style in the arts.

the canon of past art is always available for reinterpretation, imitation, and even parody or pastiche

relationship between words and music is deliberately untautological and ambiguous; the words can say one thing, the music something else.

the construction of a painting in terms of a linear grid or framework, the fusion of objects with their surroundings, the combination of several views of an object within a single image, and of abstract and representational elements in the same picture

because the cubists had destroyed, from 1906 to 1912, the realist conventions for three-dimensional perspective which had been dominant in art since the Renaissance.

It is therefore a quotation of a quotation of a quotation,