Curiosity’s like a fun friend you can’t really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster.
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Posted 4 months ago
Are we fallen angels who didn’t want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Posted 5 months ago
The truth of the matter is we don’t understand our women; we blame on them and it’s all our fault.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Posted 5 months ago
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
Kurt Vonnegut
Posted 6 months ago
I was near-great. You will be truly great. You will be the real thing.
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Posted 6 months ago
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Posted 6 months ago
Her smile was glassy, and she was ransacking her mind for something to say, finding nothing in it but used Kleenex and costume jewelry.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
Posted 6 months ago
Americans are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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