"My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples, some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death."
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"Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?"
"You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?"
"I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms."
"The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes."
"sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go to the kitchen, and pour myself a whiskey. glass in hand, i'd look down at the darkened cemetary across teh way and the headlights of the cars on the road. the moments of time linking night and dawn were long and dark. if i could cry, it might make things easier. but what would i cry over? i was too self centered to cry for other people, too old to cry for myself."
"Every time I listen to Eminem, I fall in love with music all over again."
"And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom"
"You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing."
"Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love."
"For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes."
"The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness."
"Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind."
"If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love."
"Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall."
"It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in."
"A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value."
"The children of baby boomers should take very seriously the consequences for them of the inadequate funding for them of the baby boomer generation. This is a huge economic problem for the nation, not just for individuals or individual families. Think about it for a minute - if retirees become 20% of our population and their purchasing power falls below what has been normal for retirees in the past, one important engine driving our economy will be diminished."
"Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma."
"Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results."