“If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.”
― Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script
― Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script
“Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.”
― Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
― Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
“the only way clear of the cool/crazy flipflop was obviously slow, frustrating and hard work. Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care. He might have known, if he'd used any common sense. It didn't come as a revelation, only something he'd as soon not've admitted.”
― V.
― V.
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