We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.
Άρχισαν τα πηγαδάκια. Η Γκλόρια σέρβιρε το επιδόρπιο. Ο Ντιντιέ ακούμπησε το τσιγάρο του στην άκρη του πιάτου με τα αμυγδαλωτά, σκορπίζοντας στάχτες και τρίμματα από αμυγδαλωτά και επιμένοντας ότι ο Φ...
America was supposed to be a place ruined and homogenized by highways, that that was its unique character, crass and vulgar sameness.
I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
If there was no imperative, it was not love.
Whimsy is the answer to tears.
Silent people can be misleading, suggesting profundity and thoughtfulness where there may be none.
My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.
Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.
He understood that this was the overseer's main skill, to recognize what was within human limits, but just barely. Within, but just barely was the optimum calibration, the unit of profit.
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
[S]ympathy for people, without any sympathy for what caused their circumstances, [is] not real sympathy but sentimentality.
Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
Charles Bukowski’s Factotum
I witnessed doom, though. It was around me. But at the time, I thought the bad luck of other people reaffirmed that I was doing okay.
I trusted the need for risk, the importance of honoring it.
We loved life more than the future.
It is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone.
Most unexpected was the sadness that followed on the heels of pleasure, like smoke from an extinguished candle.
The three passions, Stanley had said to me that morning, are love, hate, and ignorance. Ignorance is the strongest.
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