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1 " People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. "
― Jonathan Ames
2 " I felt myself falling asleep; my eyes were closing, and then I thought, Maybe I should just kill myself. Suicidal thoughts always sneak up on me like that. But I don’t mind them. They’re like aspirin. They calm me down. "
― Jonathan Ames , What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer
3 " I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence. "
― Jonathan Ames , The Extra Man
4 " I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot. "
― Jonathan Ames , The Alcoholic
5 " Handicapped with my own melancholy "
― Jonathan Ames , My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays
6 " I happily played the clown, Because I am a clown. "
7 " im sorry" I sniffed, "but I have to go to an orgy". "
8 " I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained. "
9 " I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright. "
10 " For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. "
11 " Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language. "
― Jonathan Ames , Wake Up, Sir!
12 " I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But I guess when we're feeling lonely in life, we attack those who actually do love us. It's one of the things that characterizes human nature and can be summed up in one word: FLAWED. "
13 " Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do. "
14 " It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time. "
― Jonathan Ames , I Pass Like Night
15 " I know I experience great consolation when my mouth is between a woman’s legs. I think it must be because I’m drinking in her happiness. "
16 " It was another sunny day, good for skin cancer and playing tennis. "
17 " I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood. "
― Jonathan Ames , Bored to Death: A Noir-otic Story
18 " Anyway, what do women grab when they’re nervous and sitting at their desks? Do they slip their hands inside their panties? What a distracting thought. Just the word panty is distracting. I love that word; it implies so much. I love how women look in panties, how they’re flat in the front. I’m thirty-five, but sometimes it’s still this beautiful amazing shock to me that women don’t have penises. They just have this lovely little mound of hair and then this tucked away glorious hole. Hole. Wait. Hole sounds vulgar. Is passageway better? Pretty envelope? Georgia O’Keeffe flower? Pussy? Pussy is good. I like the word pussy. Tucked away beautiful pussy. I wish I could put my face in one right now and sing out, “I love you! "
19 " I wondered where the person was who had taken my place, who wanted to know what news people had been told. I'm always looking for the person who replaces me, who thinks the things I do, who fills in for me when I'm not there. I know there is someone younger than me doing what I did and someone older doing what I will do, and someone my age being just like me. "
20 " Insightful and heartbreaking, but also wonderfully comedic in its gutsy honesty. A beautiful and powerful memoir. "
