Cristiano > Cristiano's Quotes

“...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“O Oysters,' said the Carpenter,
You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none -
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed...

He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.

I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Character is plot, plot is character.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.”
― Will Self, Dorian

“The better you look, the more you see.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
― Truman Capote, Answered Prayers

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.”
― Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Ande como se o chão estivesse repleto de sons de flauta...”
― Carlos Drummond de Andrade