40 quotes found
“Love and honesty dont mix.”
“Love and honesty don’t mix.”
“To be angry implies you care”
“morality... comes at a price.”
“I transform fiction into memory.”
“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”
“Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.”
“History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.”
“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”
“Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?”
“Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.”
“How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions”
“...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if fo...”
“Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.”
“If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.”
“Angst is not the human condition, its the purgatory between what we have and what we want but cant get.”
“Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.”
“I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic i...”
“When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. Theyre gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The wors...”
“Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.”
“Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle well be.”
