“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
―
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
―
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
― The Brooklyn Follies
― The Brooklyn Follies
“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
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“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― The Last of the Savages
― The Last of the Savages
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