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Small town Berlin. So featureless and like a provincial Paris. None of the charm of Vienna. Not one street except Unter den Linden.
“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman
“The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
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“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
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