“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
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“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
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“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
— Tales of Ordinary Madness
— Tales of Ordinary Madness
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“the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
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“she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”
— The People Look Like Flowers at Last
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”
— The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the dresser; the way they said, 'I’m going to pee.' hair ribbons; walking down the boulevard with them at 1:30 in the afternoon, just two people walking together; the long nights of drinking and smoking; talking; the arguments; thinking of suicide; eating together and feeling good; the jokes; the laughter out of nowhere; feeling miracles in the air; being in a parked car together; comparing past loves at 3am; being told you snore; hearing her snore; mothers, daughters, sons, cats, dogs; sometimes death and sometimes divorce; but always carring on, always seeing it through; reading a newspaper alone in a sandwich joint and feeling nausea because she’s now married to a dentist with an I.Q. of 95; racetracks, parks, park picnics; even jails; her dull friends; your dull friends; your drinking, her dancing; your flirting, her flirting; her pills, your fucking on the side and her doing the same; sleeping together”
— Women
— Women
“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the
room was like sunlight to me.”
— Factotum
room was like sunlight to me.”
— Factotum
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“And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”
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“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
— The Great Gatsby
— The Great Gatsby
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
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