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“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
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“I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.”
― The Adventures of Augie March
― The Adventures of Augie March
“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
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“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
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“For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.”
― Molloy
― Molloy
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