“Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.”
― Point Counter Point
― Point Counter Point
“What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
― The Moviegoer
― The Moviegoer
“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
“...‘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
“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
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