“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
“Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― 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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“Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.”
― If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
― If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
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