30 quotes found
“People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if y...”
“I could scream abuse at him all day long; he wouldn't mind at all. It's me he wants, my look, my outside; not my emotions or my mind or my soul or even my body. Not anything human.”
“People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.”
“It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. I...”
“M. Ive never really thought of M objectively before, as another person. Shes always been my mother Ive hated or been ashamed of. Yet of all the lame ducks Ive met or heard of, shes the lamest. Ive ...”
“He said, it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the ...”
“I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.”
“Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.”
“What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.”
“Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. But all the evil in the world's made up of little drops. It's silly talking about the unimportance ...”
