"What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness."

-- Edward Dahlberg

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Sickness Quotes

“We all get old together/And we all get old forever.”
“When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.”

Source : Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.111, Simon and Schuster
“Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.”
“All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle”
“And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!”
“By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.”
“In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.”
“First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?”

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