“Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.”
― Still Life With Woodpecker
― Still Life With Woodpecker
“The body, the house of the spirit, is under the power of pleasure and pain,” explains a god. “And if a man is ruled by his body then this man can never be free.”
― Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
― Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
“The most important thing is love,” said Leigh-Cheri. “I know that now. There’s no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.”
― Still Life With Woodpecker
― Still Life With Woodpecker
“Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a young girl’s gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord’s last pratfall, and after all that time we still don’t know where passion goes when it goes.”
― Still Life With Woodpecker
― Still Life With Woodpecker
“I have learned something that many women these days never learn: Prince Charming really is a toad. And the beautiful Princess has halitosis. The bottom line is that a) people are never perfect, but love can be, b) that is the one and only way that they mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?”
― Still Life with Woodpecker
― Still Life with Woodpecker
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