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“Ironically, it is familiarity that estranges people. We repeat the same things 'til we run out of new ways to say them. Then we grow tired of saying them and of hearing them said, and our guarded silence turning into a way of life 'til we find ourselves drifting like two rudderless steamboats with their engines off.
We misstake familiarty for intimacy. It is not intimacy. All it is, is habit. And habit is a shorthand for silence.”
― Room on the Sea
We misstake familiarty for intimacy. It is not intimacy. All it is, is habit. And habit is a shorthand for silence.”
― Room on the Sea
“It must have happened gradually, subtly, her life becoming this tedious; but recently the monotony has taken on its own sort of technicolour”
― Honey
― Honey
“Humans should function as machines for turning earth into beauty, not sugar into fat,”
― The Sleepwalkers
― The Sleepwalkers
“You can be anything you like, you know,” he replied. “There are no rules.”
― Let the Bad Times Roll
― Let the Bad Times Roll
“I realised I needed depression. I needed something to help me make sense of it all.”
― Let the Bad Times Roll
― Let the Bad Times Roll
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