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61 " You couldn’t hate someone who saw the world so differently. "
― Rachel Kushner , The Flamethrowers
62 " She was going to drink after her shift was finished. "That kind of drinking where you make a wilderness and tear a path in. You meet someone else there, deep in the woods. Go home together. Claw your way toward each the through the booze, confusion, misery, horniness. "
63 " You have time. Meaning don’t use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don’t rush to meet it. Be a conduit. I believed him. I felt this to be true. Some people might consider that passivity but I did not. I considered it living. "
64 " Whimsy is the answer to tears. "
65 " We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast. "
66 " Lonzi said the only thing worth loving was what was to come, and since what was to come was unforeseeable---only a cretin or a liar would try to predict the future---the future had to be lived now, in the now, as intensity. "
67 " If there was no imperative, it was not love. "
68 " Seks is geen ruilhandel, het is een schenkeconomie. "
69 " ...America was supposed to be a place ruined and homogenized by highways, that that was its unique character, crass and vulgar sameness. "
70 " He understood that this was the overseer's main skill, to recognize what was within human limits, but just barely. "Within, but just barely" was the optimum calibration, the unit of profit. "
71 " Silent people can be misleading, suggesting profundity and thoughtfulness where there may be none. "
72 " and it is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone. "
73 " The three passions,” Stanley had said to me that morning, “are love, hate, and ignorance. Ignorance is the strongest. "
74 " Δύσκολο ακόμα και να μιλήσεις γι' αυτό", μου είπε. "Αισθάνομαι αλλαγμένη. Πες πως είμαι ένα πουλόβερ. Και πιάνεται ένα νήμα που έχει ξεφύγει και τραβιέται και αρχίζει να ξετυλίγεται το πουλόβερ και δε μένει παρά μονάχα ένας μεγάλος μαλακός σωρός από το νήμα. Μπορείς να κάνεις κάτι μ' αυτό, με τον σωρό από το νήμα, αλλά δε θα γίνει ποτέ ξανά πουλόβερ. Αυτή είναι η κατάσταση των πραγμάτων". "
75 " It wasn't a hoax,' Burdmore said quickly. 'It was theater. Real theater. Like Brecht.' ¶ 'What does Brecht have to do with it? I think you should leave Brecht out of this-- "
76 " It wasn't a hoax,' Burdmoore said quickly. 'It was theater. Real theater. Like Brecht.' ¶ 'What does Brecht have to do with it? I think you should leave Brecht out of this-- "
77 " People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love. "
78 " It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person you were when you thought a small cut string could determine the course of a year. You also became the person to whom certain things happened. Who passed into the realm where you no longer questioned the notion of being trapped in one form. You took on that form, that identity, hoped for its recognition from others, hoped someone would love it and you. "
79 " You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit. "
80 " Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it. "