“When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.”
― The Garden of Eden
― The Garden of Eden
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― The Garden of Eden
― The Garden of Eden
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
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“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
― Death in the Afternoon
― Death in the Afternoon
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