“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I never read a book before reviewing it: it prejudices a man so.”
― Bon-mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan 1893 [Leather Bound]
― Bon-mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan 1893 [Leather Bound]
“Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom”
― November
― November
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