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“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.”
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“Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.†I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
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“If I don't ask for something, I'm not going to get it.”
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“Sunday school don't make you cool forever.”
Source : "Song: Somebody's Watching You (Stand!)". May 3, 1969.
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“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.”
Source : Andre Dubus (2010). “The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories”, p.122, Open Road Media
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“Property isn't theft: it's nothing.”
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“I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught.”
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“I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
