Candra Chamnanphony > Candra's Quotes

“I hate nothing more profoundly than the multitude... the accumulation of people, the concentration of vileness and mindlessness and lies. Much as we should love each individual, I believe, so we hate the mass.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters: A Comedy

“Dennis Prager got it right: “If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.”
― Bernard Goldberg, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America: (and Al Franken Is #37) – A Provocative and Humorous Exposé of Cultural Elites

“I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.

I would have done anything to feel real again.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“The craggy lines that made up the character in his face now seemed like scars of defeat, inflicted on him over time.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“you’ll be given a tape machine which is about the size of a box of popcorn. It weighs six pounds. With it, you’ll be given sixty tape clips which are about four inches long. The equipment will fit inside a coat pocket without a bulge. It’s a triumph of modern technology.”
― Richard Bachman, The Running Man

“We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Quien bien te quiere te hará llorar, dice el refrán. Yo soy la prueba viviente de que es lo mejor. A ver, que a mí nunca me verás tener problemas de ninguna clase con la poli desde hace ya mucho. Me aprendí la puta lección: no me meto en líos y los evito todo lo posible. Lo único que le pido a la vida es beber un poco, el fútbol y echar un polvo de vez en cuando.”
― Irvine Welsh

“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

“I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,” laughed Adam. “We won’t have to dispose of the body. I’ll get a pan and brush in a minute and flush him down the toilet.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.”
― John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

“Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.”
― Walter Scott, Rob Roy

“We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“She rubs my back and speaks in hushed tones that tell lies.
'It's all right, baby. It's all right.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible."
"Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game