“I was fourteen then. He was eighteen. Everything is biographical, Lucien Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.”
― Divisadero
― Divisadero
“I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.”
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“Every fairytale has a villain. All high quality happy endings involve a black-hearted monster. I just didn't want you to be mine.”
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“Has it ever happened to you," Léon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, some dim image that comes to you from afar, and as the completest expression of your own slightest sentiment?”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
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