Reece LeResche > Reece's Quotes

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.”
― Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.”
― Bret Easton Ellis

“I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.”
― William S. Burroughs

“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
― Tom Wolfe

“Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
― George Washington

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
― Garry Kasparov

“Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.”
― william s. burroughs

“Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.”
― William S. Burroughs

“You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.”
― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals

“In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.”
― William Burroughs

“Language is a virus from outer space”
― William S. Burroughs

“Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Your God simply does not know how to find you. Your God is omnipotent; a fact proven by creating you. Your God is omnibenevolent; a fact proven by giving you a choice in the afterlife, regardless of your moral apathy. Your God, however, is not omniscient; a fact proven by staring into your eyes. Your God does not, in fact, love you.”
― Reece LeResche, God's Unwanted Child

“I suppose, if I ever accepted who I really was, I would have killed myself long ago. In truth, there are only two types of people that commit suicide. The first are those that have lost all control of their mind, their reality, and a square footing in this world. They see nothingness as an adequate respite from the sensory offenses of life. The second ones are absolute madmen. They leave thinking the afterlife is better than here.”
― Reece LeResche

“Bad first impressions’ thy name is Delaney.”
― Reece LeResche, God's Unwanted Child

“The deterioration of any language is the decay of any moral society where in the language resides. If people don’t know how to communicate or are limited within their own language, then they will act merely on impulse. People’s shortcuts are ultimately their undoing.”
― Reece LeResche

“Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.”
― Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville