Peter Cameron Quotes

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• I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're…
• What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of…
• Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the…
• The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life.…
• People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may…
• Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it.…
• I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but…
• Are you okay?' she asked me. Of course,' I said. 'Why wouldn't I be okay?' There are lots of reasons why you might not be…
• I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not…
• I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with…
• One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.
• I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole…
• New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has…
• I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious…
• I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.
• It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable difference in my…
• I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't…
• I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.
• I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely…
• And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside…

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