You should always pay full price for a haircut, but if you have a chance to buy discount therapy you should grab it, because the markup on that shit is insane. Just having permission to talk about yourself, to let your dumb thoughts out of
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“It was bad, but what in high school is not? At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems like the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It's not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
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“You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“You’ve—it seems—no other psychiatric history, Mr. McMurry?” “McMurphy, Doc.” “Oh? But I thought—the nurse was saying—” He opens the folder again, fishes out those glasses, looks the record over for another minute before he closes it, and puts his glasses back in his pocket. “Yes. McMurphy. That is correct. I beg your pardon.” “It’s okay, Doc. It was the lady there that started it, made the mistake. I’ve known some people inclined to do that.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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