"You don't have to be alone to feel alone."

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Source : Roland Smith (2008). “Peak”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Roland Smith

“I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.”

Source : Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.77, The Overlook Press
“Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.”
“You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the teams. You know what's going on with the games even if you don't watch.”

Source : "Virginia Madsen on smelling Christopher Walken, getting tax advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger, and more". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. July 19, 2013.
“[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he taught classes at the Harvard Business School. And he was a member of the Harvard Faculty Club, which I am, too, because what I did is... I have the same name as my father, only Jr.”
“When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.”
“Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.”
“Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.”
“When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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