“I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.”
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“Worse even than your maddening song, your silence.”
“The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.”
“Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.”
“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
“Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.”
“We Are All the Same Listen to the reeds as they sway apart; Hear them speak of lost friends. At birth, you were cut from your bed, Crying and grasping in separation. Everyone listens, knowing your song. You yearn for others who know your name, And the words to your lament. We are all the same, all the same, Longing to find our way back; Back to the one, back to the only one.”
“It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.”
“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”
“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.”
“Catholicism is a really mean religion, and it's incredibly hypocritical. But it plays a role in my life 'cause you can't really get a lot of things out of your head, such as what Jesus Christ looks like and that divorce is a horrible thing.”
“And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to.”
“To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that. With that being said, then, the object of the game now is to make money off of exploiting it. That's what it's all about - get this money. That's basically what I'm saying.”
“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”
“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
“I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.”
“More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.”
“Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.”
“To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.”
“What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.”