“How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?”
― Acts of Service
― Acts of Service
“And we live quietly so as not to hurt one another.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tells us how we matter. Don't we love a cashed check, a passport, the touch of a president's hand, though each pleasure rests on a cruelty just beyond our sight? The finger points, without equivocating, at us, and we wonder at being chosen.”
― Acts of Service
― Acts of Service
“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“That's what I feel so often in painting. I mean I know exactly what I want to do, but I can't find the way in which this thing can be made. I want a deeply ordered image, you see, but I want it to come about by chance. You can always hope that the paint will do more for you, but mostly it's like painting a wall when the very first brushstroke you do gives a sudden shock of reality that is cancelled out as you paint the whole surface.”
― Francis Bacon in Your Blood
― Francis Bacon in Your Blood
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