"There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?"

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Source : Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.60, Ballantine Books

Dan Chaon

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“Some of the things we said looked worse than we meant them”
“Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?”
“Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.”

Source : Rae Armantrout (2009). “Versed”, p.97, Wesleyan University Press
“In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.”
“our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.”
“What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.”
“It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.5, U of Minnesota Press
“Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.”

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