"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."

-- Cyril Connolly

#Memories Quotes #Cards Quotes #Literature Quotes

“The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.”
“In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.”
“Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.”
“Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.”
“We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.”
“It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.”
“Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.”
“Security is a kind of death.”

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