Philip Connors famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going to wonder, 'What could I have done? What could I have said?'
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It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'
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The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.
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I’ve always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another…… transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the collisions and connections. I like the way they help me see the world from a fresh angle.
-- Philip Connors -
I’ve always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another…… transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the collisions and connections. I like the way they help me see the world from a fresh angle.
-- Philip Connors -
Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.
-- Philip Connors
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.
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There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
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When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn't Follow You.
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Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.
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It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.
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The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
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Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.
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We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.
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Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.
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