Ted > Ted's Quotes

“I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.”
― Graham Parke, Unspent Time

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
― William S. Burroughs

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.”
― William S. Burroughs

“If, after having been in someone's presence, you feel like you've lost a quart of plasma - avoid that presence. No one likes to hear the word "vampire" used around here... it's kind of bad for our public image.”
― William S. Burroughs

“He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells...”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“In nesfarsitul haos,fura contopite/Obarsiile a toate;apa si pamant si aer/si fluidul foc. Cum astfel,din aceste inceputuri/Necuprinsul prinse viata;se-nchega si globul lumii.”
― Virgil, Bucoliche - Georgiche

“It's Friday night the city is a heart that beats alone,despite the millions of blood cells that race through its dog-legged arteries, oblivious to each other yet performing a life sustaining dance. [...] You're tired of being part of this blood dance. The immune system has been trying to excise you as diseased for as long you can remember, but you've been tenacious,clinging to the walls and floors as the torrent pushes you around.”
― A.J. Fitzwater, Fat Girl in a Strange Land

“ Experiența[..] este capătul unor încercări fructoase, întreprinse cu cel mai desăvârșit cinism, de a nega toate acele lucruri pe care le-au prețuit ca adevărate,curate,drepte. Ei unii nu-și dau seama de teribilul cinism care zace în această permanentă definire a experienței ca suprem scop al vieții. ”
― Stig Dagerman, A Burnt Child