"The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory."

-- Jonathan Lethem

#Spiritual Quotes #Memories Quotes #Book Quotes

“It's important not to make the gold medal bigger than it is.”
“I'm more about what's right than having the girl's back no matter what.”
“You canâ€™t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. Iâ€™m hardly speaking in metaphor. Itâ€™s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?”
“I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.”
“Grief alone can teach us what is man.”
“Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.”

Source : STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”
“Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.”
“the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.”

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