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Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino
Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino: Stories | Julian Herbert
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Virtuosic stories by one of �the more interesting and ambitious prose stylists of our time� (Los Angeles Times) In this madcap, insatiably inventive, bravura story collection, Juli�n Herbert brings to vivid life people who struggle (…more)
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Bertha_Mason

"In the moonlight, the outlines of the buildings made stepped patterns in space, and piles of broken glass sparkled on nearby rooftops; I remember that because I thought it was somehow like seeing the sound of crickets."
-"Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino"

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Bertha_Mason

"Now that I come to think of it, cinema must be the art form that has the most in common with being confined in an ant colony thirty feet belowground."
-"Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino"

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Bertha_Mason

"Whenever I mention this, the public accuses me of suffering from Stockholm syndrome. I don‘t find that judgment unfair: after all, it‘s a rare privilege to be kidnapped by the evil twin of your favorite movie director."
-"Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino"

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Bertha_Mason

"Opposite us were two vacant seats. Or almost vacant: across the narrow space between them lay—very demure, proper, and pretty—a croissant with a single bite taken out of it. At a glance, it looked like a splendid pile of pale shit."
-"The Dog's Head"

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Bertha_Mason

"Abstinence is like a dome of excess where all the fantasies of resentful desire end up."
-"NEETs"

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Bertha_Mason

"By day, the landscape bordering the highway is like jeweled folds: green and blue mountains, white dunes, mounds of exposed virgin rock that made you think of giant hands emerging from the land of the dead to punch the sun."
-"M.L. Estefanía"

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Bertha_Mason

"Then later, when I got home, I‘d masturbate, evoking the catch in her husky voice until I finally felt a dull thump in my coccyx. Ejaculating before you can actually ejaculate is one of the most brutal experiences I know."
-"The Ballad of Mother Teresa of Calcutta"