The past looks worse the closer you look at it.
Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing.
“People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.”
“I have learned that the libido, like Elvis and jealousy, never dies. I know copulators of eighty-five. Who said you need an erection, a body or an orgasm for sex?”
“Sex is like art: if you know what youre doing, you dont know what youre doing.”
“Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.”
“I dont like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.”
“Old age is the new childhood.”
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”
“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”