“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“Nothing is important except the fate of the soul; and literature is only redeemed from an utter triviality ... by the fact that it describes not the world around us, or the things on the retina of the eye, or the enormous irrelevancy of encyclopedias, but some condition to which the human spirit can come.”
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“Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.”
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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