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“When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.”
― The Rules of Attraction
― The Rules of Attraction
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.”
― Women
― Women
“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.”
― In Cold Blood
― In Cold Blood
“February 13, 1936
I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps...
Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want to write about men, should I stop talking about the countryside? If the sky or light attract me, shall I forget the eyes or voices of those I love? Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself.”
― Notebooks 1935-1942
I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps...
Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want to write about men, should I stop talking about the countryside? If the sky or light attract me, shall I forget the eyes or voices of those I love? Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself.”
― Notebooks 1935-1942
Alise’s 2025 Year in Books
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314 books
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552 books
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238 books
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556 books
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338 books
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360 books
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