“I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred to me.”
― The Buddha of Suburbia
― The Buddha of Suburbia
“This was the English passion, not for self-improvement or culture or wit, but for DIY, Do It Yourself, for bigger and better houses with more mod cons, the painstaking accumulation of comfort and, with it, status - the concrete display of earned cash.”
― The Buddha of Suburbia
― The Buddha of Suburbia
“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
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“[My father] murmured only, 'you can always tell when a woman is ready for sex. Oh yes. Her ears get hot.'
I looked keenly at Helen's ears. I even reached out and pinched one of them lightly, for scientific confirmation. Warmish!”
― The Buddha of Suburbia
I looked keenly at Helen's ears. I even reached out and pinched one of them lightly, for scientific confirmation. Warmish!”
― The Buddha of Suburbia
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