“Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.”
― Point Counter Point
― Point Counter Point
“Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkels and softens the body while it still lives, tots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.”
― Antic Hay
― Antic Hay
“To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
― The Moviegoer
― The Moviegoer
“More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“...‘I am interested in everything,’ interrupted Gumbril Junior.
‘Which comes to the same thing,’ said his father parenthetically, ‘as being interested in nothing.”
― Antic Hay
‘Which comes to the same thing,’ said his father parenthetically, ‘as being interested in nothing.”
― Antic Hay
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