"I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and wisdom and generosity, a munificent heart--do this until that incredibly lovely day when the great man would say to me, his voice grave and dramatic with discovery: "This is you, Exley. Rise and go back into the world a whole man."

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Source : Frederick Exley (1997). “A Fan's Notes”

Frederick Exley

#Lying Quotes #Heart Quotes #Dark Quotes

“...and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.”
“First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.”
“Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.”
“It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.”
“Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.”
“You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.”

Source : Paul Auster (2012). “Winter Journal”, p.6, Faber & Faber
“I want to be an example, the person who when they look at, they say, "That guy is a Christian, there's no doubt about it." I want to be blameless. I want to be an encouragement. I want to be a role model for the believer.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“Happy". I had not heard that word since Mr. Milgrom spoke it at the last Hanukkah. I asked him the question that had been on my mind since then. "Tata, what is happy?" He looked at me and at the ceiling and back to me. "Did you ever taste an orange?" he said.”

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