James > James's Quotes

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

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
― Confucius

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre