I could say we felt like a family, but we really didn’t. If anything, we felt like a group of adults who found life too challenging.


“He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not deserve it either, because he was letting it waste. It was getting away from him and he made no effort to stop it. He did not know how.”
― Fat City
― Fat City

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
― One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.”
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“You're both mother fuckers." She was half asleep. Her voice was matter-of-fact as if referring to actual incest.”
― Junky
― Junky
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