Boris Abrams

“He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”
― Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“The greatest drug of all, my dear, was not one of those pills in so many colors that you took over the years, was not the opium, the hash you smoked in houses at the beach, or the speed or smack you shot up in Sutherland's apartment, no, it wasn't any of these. It was the city, darling, it was the city, the city itself. And do you see why I had to leave? As Santayana said, dear, artists are unhappy because they are not interested in happiness; they live for beauty. God, was that steaming, loathsome city beautiful!!! And why finally no human lover was possible, because I was in love with all men, with the city itself.”
― Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance