“He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.”
― Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust
― Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust
“What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
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“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
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