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- Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they…
- All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost…
- Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know…
- For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other.…
- To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
- If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly blood transfusions, or…
- The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes…
- That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that -…
- Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had. Warren Lasher Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano Charles Deats or Keats Alfonse Tuck it in your pocket.…
- No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all…
- All the world's a stage we're going through.
- Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your…
- Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
- It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in…
- When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will…
- It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train…
- The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of…
- Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them,…
- I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and…
- But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman