"That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise."

-- R. K. Milholland

#Suicide Quotes #Surprise Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.”
“Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger My daughter as we walk together now. All my life I'll feel a ring invisibly Circle this bone with shining When she is grown.”
“One should practice much sense, not much learning.”
“Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.”
“Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.”
“I keep my undies in the icebox!”
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.”
“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”

Source : Daniil Kharms (2007). “Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms”, Overlook Press

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