"It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it."

-- John Lennon

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“Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.”

Source : Daphne Merkin (2014). “The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags”, p.229, Macmillan
“Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it on riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?”
“There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential”

Source : "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.
“Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.”
“The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.”
“Youâ€™d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look”
“Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, Iâ€™m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.”
“My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.”

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