Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual Quotes

“...we are willing to lose ourselves in another as we exchange fates with one whom we love but on whom our heart is nevertheless impaled.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“Our personalities create an inferno for others and they seal us off in hells of our own. We bite at the carcass of history and tear away our feeble dreams in bloody chunks. Bernard Mandeville was correct. So was Thomas Hobbes. And Niccolo Machiavelli. There is no limit to the hyena in us. It is a miracle we are upright.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“the opposite of ambition was not in fact laziness but depression”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“The longer we live, he realized, the more we realize we deserve to die.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“It is an aspect of stupidity, never mind sloth, to need people—seriously! Intelligent people need solitude to think.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“Ten competent minds are worth more to me than the applause of unthinking multitudes.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“There is no such thing as a fair wind for the sailor who does not know to which port he is bound," he said. "You don't fail until you give up trying.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“When you cannot live life, thought Eugene, unreality is less a sorrow than a sanctuary.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“A crowd is a personality. An irrational number. An absolute tribunal. Swayable. Cruel. Up to no good.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“The mirage—the floral illusion—of democracy is that it purports to include everybody, when it is in reality the banging drum not of the tenant farmer but the supreme suzerain.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“The people as a body is often a dunce without a hat, staring into space. We who live in democracies are almost always pulled powerlessly in the direction of the big dumb dopey herd! Weevils on the march!”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“History is written by the winners, who in their singular usurpation compound a crime, committing the further atrocity of repressing facts which in a very real way not only re-enacts but hideously travesties not only reality but the essence of truth itself.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“Self-reliance in any temporal in a government where crowd mentality takes over can only disappear into a herd.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“I guess a way to inhabit the present is to revisit it in a work of art. Art embalms the past, portraying as present.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“It is as great an error to speak well of a worthless fellow as to speak ill of a good one.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“It is a sentimental religion today to stay ignorant. There is no dialogue between the sexes today, only two monologues.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“The singular and most profound way of knowing is to go where one has never been before. The secret of seeking and finding knowledge is "elsewhere.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“in looking for love and its solution we merely spin fortune's wheel and wait to see where it stops.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“he had long known that the vice of wooing the world was the quickest method of losing your way.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“Hell had a way of showing up in the strangest images.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“the tyranny of the majority was often more onerous than that of a despot.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“Once deception takes, there results religion.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“To fall in love is to have the experience of being reborn, instantly seeing yourself, not for what you are, but for what you could be.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual

“A writer who must remain in a real sense immune to experience, the better to analyze it, must also in reality be at the mercy of it.”
― Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual