Luis Kiester > Luis's Quotes

“It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.”
― Douglas Coupland, Eleanor Rigby

“He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“It wasn’t the kind of thing you could ask but still I wanted to know. Did she have nightmares too? Crowd fears? Sweats and panics? Did she ever have the sense of observing herself from afar, as I often did, as if the explosion had knocked my body and my soul into two separate entities that remained about six feet apart from one another? Her gust of laughter had a self-propelling recklessness I knew all too well from wild nights with Boris, an edge of giddiness and hysteria that I associated (in myself, anyway) with having narrowly missed death.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“ترجیح میدهم طوری زندگی کنم که گویی خدا هست و وقتی مُردم بفهمم نیست، تا اینکه طوری زندگی کنم که انگار خدا نیست و وقتی مُردم بفهمم که هست.”
― آلبر کامو

“Denunciation in Russia has a long history, going back at least as far as the sixteenth century and the testingly protracted reign of Ivan the Terrible (1533– 84). “Spy or die” was, more or less, the oath you swore. This practice, increasingly institutionalized under the old regime, was a tsarist barbarity that Lenin might have been expected to question.”
― Martin Amis, Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million

“As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never intruded and even their role in conception was unknown. Here the chain of life was mother to daughter, daughter to mother. Fathers and sons belonged in the shadows with the dogs and livestock, like the retriever growling at Midwife Bell's unfamiliar car from the window of my neighbours' living room.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Kindness of Women

“Tenía miedo.
La idea se me presentó como una revelación y supe que era verdad. Decía que quería tratar de crecer y cambiar, pero en verdad todo lo que hacía llevaba a que las cosas siguieran siendo exactamente iguales, Cuando me enfrentaba a un cambio, pisaba los frenos. [...] Quería mantenerme en mi burbuja perfecta, en donde sabía que si todo no era perfecto, al menos era manejable.”
― Kasie West, Love, Life, and the List

“Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.”
― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels