“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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“Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
― Factotum
― Factotum
“in this land some of us fuck more than
we die but most of us die
better than we fuck”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
we die but most of us die
better than we fuck”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
― Factotum
― Factotum
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