"I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional."

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Source : Jonathan Littell (2009). “The Kindly Ones: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

Jonathan Littell

#Believe Quotes #Air Quotes #Drink Quotes

“Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about the (perfect) game, but I don't remember when it happened last.”
“If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.”
“We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.”
“I am a vampire," I say softly. "And you have pissed me off.”
“I'm an old-fashioned theatre major at heart.”
“I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades”

Source : "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.
“No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.”
“Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.”

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