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“People are lonely, is my point here. Many people can’t say to those they know well what it is they feel they might want to say.”
― Oh William!
― Oh William!
“He said that he had learned Transcendental Meditation as a way of dealing with otherwise uncontrollable ticcing in public places.“It’s just autohypnosis,” he explained. “You have a mantra, a little word or phrase repeating slowly in your mind, and you soon get into a sort of trance and become oblivious to everything. It calms me down.” He remained almost tic-free for the rest of the evening.”
― Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
― Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
“Grief is such a—oh, it is such a solitary thing; this is the terror of it, I think. It is like sliding down the outside of a really long glass building while nobody sees you.”
― Oh William!
― Oh William!
“Fitzgerald said that the sign of genius is being able to hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. But what if you hold two contradictory fears? Are you still some kind of a genius?”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“But we are all mythologies, mysterious. We are all mysteries, is what I mean.
This may be the only thing in this world I know to be true.”
― Oh William!
This may be the only thing in this world I know to be true.”
― Oh William!
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