“She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
― A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
― A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?”
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”
― Wise Blood
― Wise Blood
“Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.”
― Ferdydurke
― Ferdydurke
“Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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