Giulio

“Lunedì.
Comunque nel frattempo è stata trovata la spiegazione scientifica del blues del lunedì: Dio ha creato il mondo in sei giorni, la domenica si è riposato, il lunedì ha guardato quello che aveva fattoe gli è venuta una tristezza, ma una tristezza... E così ci guarda ogni lunedì, nella sua infinita disperazione.”
― Tiziano Sclavi, Non è successo niente

“It would be nice to think that as I've got older times have changed, relationships have become more sophisticated, females less cruel, skins thicker, reactions sharper, instincts more developed. But there still seems to be an element of that evening in everything that happened to me since; all my other romantic stories seem to be a scrambled version of that first one. Of course, I have never had to take that long walk again, and my ears have not burned with quite the same fury, and I have never had to count the packs of cheap cigarettes in order to avoid mocking eyes and floods of tears... not really, not actually, not as such. It just feels that way, sometimes.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

“David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you can do. This is easy, and you’re the sort of person who really just wants to sit in a chair and have it easy. When in fact there are parts of us, in a way, that are a lot more ambitious than that. And what we need, I think—and I’m not saying I’m the person to do it. But I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that we’re smart. And that there’s stuff that TV and movies—although they’re great at certain things—cannot give us.”
― David Lipsky, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace