“It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.”
― Tenth of December
― Tenth of December
“Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.”
― A Wild Sheep Chase
― A Wild Sheep Chase
“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.”
― Steppenwolf
― Steppenwolf
“What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.”
― In Persuasion Nation
― In Persuasion Nation
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