Eric Wallace

“Normal doesn't feel so normal to me," I tell him.

"It's normal to feel that way," he replies.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“He talked about wanting to take on the destructive, mind-numbing junk culture of his time just as Cervantes had gone to war with the junk culture of his own age.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“It was bewildering at such an advanced age to understand that the narrative of your family which you had carried within you--within which, in a way, you had lived--was false, or, at the very least, that you had been ignorant of its most essential truth, which had been kept from you. Not to be told the whole truth, [...], was to be told a lie. That lie had been his truth. Maybe this was the human condition, to live inside fictions created by untruths or the withholding of actual truths. Maybe human life was truly fictional in this sense, that those who lived it didn't understand it wasn't real.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
― Thomas Otway