"Is there an existence that is only mine?"

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Source : Russell Hoban (2012). “Kleinzeit”, p.134, A&C Black

Russell Hoban

#Conformity Quotes #Existence Quotes #Non Conformity Quotes

“The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.”
“I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?”
“Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.”
“Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.”
“And then, when there is nothing else between us but love, we can begin to find a way to truly be together.”
“...thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.”
“The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.”
“A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.”

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