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Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--it's not useful--to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it. [p. 69] Julian Barnes
Unattainability. The most intense joy lies not in the having, but inthe desiring. The delight that never fades, the bliss that is eternal, is only yours when what you most desire is just out of your reach. C. S. Lewis
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch—terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean. Rube Goldberg
They did not speak of it the first night, when they spoke of everything until dawn, nor would they ever speak of it. But in the long run, neither of them had made a mistake. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Lee quote: "The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the..."
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. Harper Lee
It wasn't just my beast's hunger, but Jean-Claude's blood thirst and Richard's craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next in an endless chain, a snake eating it's own tail, an Ouroboros of desires. Laurell K. Hamilton
Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but..."
Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs..."
This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead. Chuck Palahniuk
I believe there are only one or two people in the world with whom one can have a true connection. When you've been fortunate enough to marry one of those people, you are reluctant to settle for less. One can have lovers, those are easily found, but true love rarely strikes twice. Nicole Richie
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. Kazuo Ishiguro
What's important about morality in politics is us. We own the chicken farm. We must give our bird-brained, feather-headed politicians morals. Politicians love to think of themselves as "free-range" but they do not have the capacity to hunt or gather morals in the wild. If we fail to supply them with morality, politicians begin to act very scary in the barnyard. These are enormous headless chickens and they have nukes. P. J. O'Rourke
Ah, guilt and sorrow had dogged Juan's footsteps too, for he was not a Catholic who could rise refreshed from the cold bath of confession. Yet the banality stood: that the past was irrevocably past. And conscience had been given man to regret it only in so far as that might change the future. For man, every man, Juan seemed to be telling him, even as Mexico, must ceaselessly struggle upward. What was life but a warfare and a stranger's sojourn? Malcolm Lowry
I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this," he said. "Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now."Consider them said, he thought. I'll say them later. Ernest Hemingway
I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts. Doug Coupland
Tennessee Williams quote: "Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is..."
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged. Tennessee Williams

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