"The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less."

-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Matter Quotes #Lost Quotes

“Everybody's crazy in some way and everybody's weird, and that kind of makes us all the same in a lot of ways. We're not alone, we just think we are.”

Source : "Mxpx Get Promotional Help From George W. Bush, Emily Bronte" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. August 6, 2003.
“If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with that.”
“He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.”

Source : Joseph Mitchell (2012). “Up in the Old Hotel”, p.411, Random House
“These are the highlights in a lifetime of following sports. Hilarity. The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly ... if you have ever seen the great women s teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba and East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be.”
“I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I â€” as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again â€” it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.”
“I'd rather live at the bottom of a well than leave Avonlea.”
“Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, ***** causes orgasms, and the pretense that life is what we want it to be may conceivably bring about the desired condition. Hence religious parables, socialist realism, Nazi propaganda. And if this story likewise crawls with reactionary supernaturalism, that might be because its author longs to see letters scuttling across ceilings, cautiously beginning to reify themselves into angels. For if they could only do that, then why not us?”

Source : William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.36, Penguin
“I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.”

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