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My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays QUOTES

1 " Handicapped with my own melancholy "

― Jonathan Ames , My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

2 " I happily played the clown, Because I am a clown. "

― Jonathan Ames , My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

3 " im sorry" I sniffed, "but I have to go to an orgy". "

― Jonathan Ames , My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

4 " 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. "

― Jonathan Ames , My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

5 " 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. "

― Jonathan Ames , My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

6 " 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. "

― Jonathan Ames , My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

7 " 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! "

― Jonathan Ames , My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

8 " Aside from the possible scientific explanations for the death of ballsiness, there is an economic one, which I think may be the real cause: high rents. It's very hard to be a ballsy writer when you can't afford to live anywhere. It makes you absolutely nervous and insane and takes all yours guts away. I have to say this is the case for yours truly. If I could pay a 1954 rent of fifty-eight dollars a month, I might actually be a ballsy writer. But I'm so crippled by my enormous twenty-first century rent that I can barely get out of bed, let alone raise hell, which is what you need to do to qualify as a ballsy writer. You have to be a hell-raiser. You have to care about political things and you have to be able to afford booze, not to mention days lost to hangovers. But if you're worried all the time about having to go live with your parents as a thirty-seven-year-old, then to hell with hell. You only have one goal: to come up with the rent. You don't have time for political causes or all-night orgies. "

― Jonathan Ames , My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

9 " Because I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe im moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained. "

― Jonathan Ames , My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

10 " Okay, enough of that. If I keep writing in this emotional vein, Oprah might take notice of me "

― Jonathan Ames , My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

11 " But there's another story, A real short one, probably written on my grave: " couldn't stay sober. Never liked himself. "

― Jonathan Ames , My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays