“Too shallow to be truly lonely,” Pauline Kael wrote in her review of L’Avventura, “they are people trying to escape their boredom by reaching out to one another and finding only boredom again.”
“Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I’m told.”
-Haruki Murakami, defying protests to accept the Jerusalem Prize.
“People don’t turn to self-help books to be reminded of the complexity of life or human relationships, they want an Oprah-esque ‘a-ha!’ moment that allows them to take charge and move on with their lives. (See: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.) So, I get it. The only thing I don’t get about HJNTIY is why, after a guy promises he’ll call and then doesn’t, plans a date and then ditches, the response should be ‘he’s just not that into me’ instead of ‘he’s an inconsiderate asshole, and I shouldn’t be that into him’?”
-Tracy Clark-Flory in Broadsheet.
“When so many are lonely… as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
-Tennessee Williams.
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The above is from a letter written by Zelda to F. Scott, May, 1919.
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”
-Walt Whitman.
Do gravity holes harbour planetary assassins?
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“The whole world is you. Yet you keep thinking there is something else.”
-Hsue-Feng.
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are changed.”
-Carl Jung.
