“I think credibility died of shame around 1986, just as all those sixties war protesters and fearless battlers for racial equality were discovering junk bonds, Martha Stewart Living, and the StairMaster.”
― Hearts in Atlantis
― Hearts in Atlantis
“If a man thinks only of his own profit, and tries to benefit himself at the expense of others, he will incur the hatred of Heaven.”
― Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai
― Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai
“There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.”
― Insomnia
― Insomnia
“She’s like a thousand different people right now, all waiting to be, and every time she makes a choice, one of those people goes away forever. Until finally you run out of choices and you are whoever you are.”
― North American Lake Monsters
― North American Lake Monsters
“perhaps real beauty was something unrecognized by the conscious self, a work that was always in progress, a thing of being rather than seeing.”
― Insomnia
― Insomnia
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