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“I mean, I’m not a kid anymore. I could go tomorrow. And I hope I go tomorrow. I haven’t gone today yet.”
― It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
― It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“I tell ya, I know I’m ugly. My proctologist stuck his finger in my mouth.”
― It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
― It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“This is from an Indian comedian named Charlie Hill: “They say Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean. My people were living here for hundreds and hundreds of years. We never noticed it? “One day the chief took his son to the top of a mountain. As they looked out over the hills and valleys, he spread his arms wide and said, ‘Son, someday none of this will be yours.”
― It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
― It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
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