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“What love gives you is the courage to face the secrets you've kept from yourself, a reason to open the rest of the doors.”
― Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
― Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
“If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.”
― Nine Stories
― Nine Stories
“In this Puritan sinkhole of a culture, we don't teach children the uses of pleasure, and so they decide we are fools and go their own way, blindly. If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks.”
― Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
― Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
“Ho sempre avuto un debole per quei momenti a cui,un domani,si può guardare per dire:”E’lì! E’ lì che stava cominciando tutto e io non lo sapevo!”
― Le luci nelle case degli altri
― Le luci nelle case degli altri
“I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.”
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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