Dennis

“All unhappiness enters through the window of observation and the door of thought.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“You think he’s a real writer, Park?” “Sure he is. He’s got three books right in this library.” “True or made up?” “Made up.” Parkins put his knife away and sighed.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

“I’ll say goodbye with something that another of my favorite writers, John Cheever, said in his journal at the end of his life: ‘I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess, and that its role as a consciousness must inform us of our inability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.”
― Rodrigo Fresán, The Invented Part

“Yet dreamed landscapes are merely the smoke from known landscapes and the tedium of dreaming them is almost as great as the tedium of looking at the world. And hovering distractedly above all this, like a vast blue sky, the horror of living.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition