"Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life."

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Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.176, Vintage

Charles Yu

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #True Self Quotes

“Keep your head up and be patient.”
“It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.”
“I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.”
“There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l'avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l'avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival.”
“Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.”

Source : Michael Moorcock (2009). “The Best of Michael Moorcock”, p.146, Tachyon Publications
“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”
“I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do it myself. So I instituted a suit against the city of Baltimore demanding that the city assessor be specifically ordered to assess the Church for its vast property holdings in the city, and that the city tax collector then be instructed to collect the taxes once the assessment has been made.”
“Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range,”

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