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“But love, once it dyes our hearts purple, won't go away. Especially the kind of love we used to feel when we were young, the kind we wish we could feel again for someone new.”
― Black Swans
― Black Swans
“I did not become famous but I got near enough to smell the stench of success. It smelt like burnt cloth and rancid gardenias, and I realized that the truly awful thing about success is that it's held up all those years as the thing that would make everything all right. And the only thing that makes things even slightly bearable is a friend who knows what you're talking about.”
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“I’m always amazed at how books find us at the time we need them, as if there’s some omniscient, benevolent librarian in the sky.”
― Black Swans
― Black Swans
“People think you should be in love with other people or your work or justice. I’ve been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I’ve loved and the ideas I’ve embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand”
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“You know, when you come to think about it, it's a wonder women have anything to do with men at all, and no surprise that men have devised all kinds of schemes to bind women to them, like not giving them any money. If you had your choice of sleeping with a beautiful soft creature or a large hard one, which would you pick? I mean, if they both had the same amount of money?”
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
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