“And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.”
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
― Under The Deodars
― Under The Deodars
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.”
― John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.”
― John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs
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