"The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses--especially the grander ones--have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies."

-- Christopher Isherwood

#Lying Quotes #Divorce Quotes #Oil Quotes

“They say time flies, but you keep breaking itâ€™s wings.”
“He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.”
“Her mind is a haunted house.”

Source : Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, p.5, Faber & Faber
“Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.”

Source : S.S. Van Dine (2013). “The Philo Vance Megapack: 12 Classic Mysteries - The Complete Series”, p.1022, Wildside Press LLC
“At least I can say that I'm honest.”
“Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.”
“Beauty,--the fading rainbow's pride.”

Source : Fitz-Greene HALLECK (1847). “The Poetical Works of F. H. Now First Collected”, p.91
“Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.”

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