"Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this."

-- Anais Nin

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“There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.”
“But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.”
“It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.”
“Now that I'm a pez and a LEGO I don't really want for any more...”
“The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.”
“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”

Source : Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.60, Random House
“So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?”
“Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.”

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