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“My parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife-everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. Well, it finally dawned on me that my reflection in others' eyes was the truth once removed.”
Source : Richard Moran (1990). “Dallas Down”, Jove Publications
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“Love loves to love love.”
Source : Ulysses (1922)
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“Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.”
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“And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying American dollar bills as has ever been devised by man.”
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“It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.”
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“I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.”
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“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.”
Source : Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Being”, p.90, Open Road Media
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“Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.”
