Human beings, on the other hand, rarely do what you want them to, particularly lovers. You want a lover to comfort you, to engage with you, to agree with your peculiar worldview, to make you laugh and to laugh at your jokes. It's true,
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“Porque las estirpes condenadas a cien años de soledad no tenían una segunda oportunidad sobre la tierra.”
― Cien Anos de Soledad (Spanish Edition) (Spanish Edition) (Spanish) Paperback January 1, 1997
― Cien Anos de Soledad (Spanish Edition) (Spanish Edition) (Spanish) Paperback January 1, 1997
“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
― Factotum
― Factotum
“It's hard to know where you are when you're trying to read a map by the light of a falling star.”
― Devil in a Coma
― Devil in a Coma
“From the cubicle of the job to the cubicle of resting and waiting to return to the job. The job is the center. The job is the sun. The job is the mother’s breast. To be jobless is the sin; to be lifeless doesn’t matter.”
― More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
― More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
“If love were a drug, I would have only ever tried it once. Even then, I probably would have threatened physical violence until I got my money back.”
― Are You Lonesome Tonight?
― Are You Lonesome Tonight?
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