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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home…
— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (via liquidnight)
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found…
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America (via liquidnight)
She bit her lip and turned her head a little and looked at me along her eyes. Then she lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theater curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.
— Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (via liquidnight)
The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (via liquidnight)
The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
— Milan Kundera, Ignorance (via liquidnight)
That moment when you awake, and the dream you were just inside of is now this big elephant that has been sitting on you. It suddenly lifts up - and you grab at it but can only get a pinch of the edge…like silly putty.
The pinch of edge stretches as that dream elephant floats away….the little pinch getting smaller and smaller until all you have left is a speck of silly putty and the dream-a-phant has faded away entirely…
For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy…
— Virginia Woolf, Orlando (via liquidnight)
Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
— Henry Miller, “An Open Letter to All and Sundry”
From Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (via liquidnight)
From Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (via liquidnight)
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.
— Lloyd Alexander
From Tusen år av fantasy – Resan till Mordor by Bo Eriksson (via liquidnight)
From Tusen år av fantasy – Resan till Mordor by Bo Eriksson (via liquidnight)
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
— William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (via liquidnight)
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