“As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 229 of 303
“when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.”
“It seems like most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done in their life, not what other people have done, with their lives.”
“I think Gmail chats are different than IRL conversations because Gmail chats are saved by Gmail exactly as they occurred. I like texts and emails. Seems like I don't have anything to say that isn't obvious about texts, emails, and Gmail chats.”
“I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before.”
“I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about and would say that I am them pretty much. So in terms of that I don't think I'm similar to Bret Easton Ellis .”
“I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.”
“I don't know what Douglas Coupland thinks about his writing. I've read maybe one page of one of his books and didn't think I was similar to him. But it seems like people just compare you to anyone, pretty much.”
“If I focused hard on getting a literary agent, and doing things like that, instead of designing my blog's header, I would have more money, I think. I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view [anything] as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.”
“Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling away, and ousting them, filling their place, a will with no image. Will beneath crusts which readily crack whenever the act inside swells and seeks new borders.”
“Of all my books, I find only a few indispensible.”
“Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad”
“(In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk.”
“My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.”
“When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?”
“There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.”
“Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.”
“For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.”
“It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.”
“I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature. You can just delete an e-mail and it's like it was never there.”