"I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite."

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Source : "Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. September, 1997.

Jamaica Kincaid

#Positivity Quotes #Pursuit Of Happiness Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I don't pretend to be the character I AM the character.”

Source : "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2008.
“It's almost impossible to live the right life when you have the wrong friends.”
“Is all the world jails and churches?”

Source : "Song: Vietnow (Evil Empire)". October 1997.
“The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.”
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year.”
“The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.”

Source : Review of "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman, "Salon", March 25, 2003.
“When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.”

Source : Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.100, tredition
“Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but I'm no joker”

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