Le pays où tout est permis Quotes

“But it must be that I am constantly myself and chaos - and am myself in every remnant of myself - albeit a traumatized version of myself - on the coast meeting some future twin or ghost of myself.”
― Sophie Podolski, Le pays où tout est permis

“I'm not here to be stronger than you.”
― Sophie Podolski, Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted

“Not everyone is endowed with the vice of writing—the vice of writing—a limited number even—I wander sinuously—am i translucent?—I like twisting myself twist me—embrace me—So Im I’ll loved—for being so much loved—I’ll go much further one day I’ll stop the detox—I’ll stop writing—and I’ll rush blindly—whore or not—living dead with no way back—I’ll start with a suicide—I’ll no longer be blind—I’ll find it so hard to bear the idea of writing and reading in the half-light that I’ll forget instantly—never again will I win any victories—I’ll live in the sunshine because I’m strong and because spitting Indian ink is no more my profession than love”
― Sophie Podolski, Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted

“I’m a chattering blackbird—I’m a puddle of oil—I’m a child sitting on the floor wanting to be rewarded. ... (We are never more than assistants to the void).”
― Sophie Podolski, Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted

“My genius is crumbling. I’m not complaining; it’s just that it hurts”
― Sophie Podolski, Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted

“I once saw an actor playing drunkenness—it took me a while to realize that he had put together his act taking this from one drunkard—that from the other—from another the slurred speech—from the other the movements—or the actions—or memories and with but and pieces had made a patchwork of drunkenness that didn’t correspond to any possible drinker and had no center—no truth and had been put together as if by a man who has no idea what drunkenness is and couldn’t imagine it in his head—I have to say it was mind boggling.”
― Sophie Podolski, Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted