“What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.”
― I Am Legend and Other Stories
― I Am Legend and Other Stories
“People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
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