"Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?"

-- Yukio Mishima

#Dying Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Kind Quotes

“My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox." So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.”
“For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.”
“But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.”
“When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.”

Source : Jeffrey Bernard (2002). “Reach for the Ground”, p.109, Gerald Duckworth & Co
“My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will be harsh and exacting towards them. But because you want others to like you, you will always attempt to hide your weaknesses from others. Let me strip away your masks,so that you may know who you really are.And when this truth sets you free,then shall you be free to genuinely love. Before this occurs,your love will be offered by the flask,not by the torrents of a river.”
“You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.”
“My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.”
“As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.”

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