“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“Mature love is loving, not being loved.”
― Existential Psychotherapy
― Existential Psychotherapy
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
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“Wild Women: "They know instinctively when things must die and when things must live; they know how to walk away, they know how to stay.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
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