“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
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“I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
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“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
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