Label Lost

“You can’t get the boon and benefit of a contradiction by taking sides.”
― Adam Phillips, On Giving Up

“It was evident that colitis suited her far better than appendicitis, her face had lost its languid pallour and her big eyes sparkled with youth.”
― Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele

“Dearest Shell, if you let me I’d always keep you 400 miles away and write you pretty poems and letters. . . . I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation.”
― Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

“Thousands of vitamin supplements, lifestyle gurus, meditation methods, ecstatic-dance therapies, ethical investments, mystic fayres, drumming workshops, complementary-health practitioners, spiritual paths, personal-growth techniques, hypnotists and self-awareness summer schools compete with each other for the attention of the poor lonely seeker of the truth. They all claim to offer the answer to your problems, they all cost money and they all simply encourage you to abandon one set of rules in favour of another, when surely the real solution is to abandon the whole idea of theories altogether.”
― Tom Hodgkinson, How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto