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“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
“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
“Le telefonate che si ricevono a quest'ora, pensava Tina trascinandosi dalla cucina al salotto per rispondere, si dividono sempre in due categorie. Ci sono quelle che al momento di andare a dormire avrai dimenticato e quelle che invece ti torneranno in mente: a loro volta le seconde si dividono fra quelle che ti concilieranno il sonno e quelle che ti impediranno di prenderlo.”
― Le luci nelle case degli altri
― Le luci nelle case degli altri
“If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.”
― Nine Stories
― Nine Stories
“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
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