“I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be.”
― Roland Merullo, quote from A Little Love Story
“Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of
Germany or Australia always shows in a German or an Australian, no matter where they go. Outsiders like it or they don't, they feel at home there or they don't. It's like the taste of cilantro.
”
― Roland Merullo, quote from A Little Love Story
“I decided that if I was worth anything as a person, I ought to be able to let her be with what it was she had to be with then: not urge her to fight it if she was tired of fighting, not ply her with hope, not make her think about who might be upset or worried, not ask anything of her, nothing, just be alive with her while she was still alive.”
― Roland Merullo, quote from A Little Love Story
“I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.”
― Roland Merullo, quote from A Little Love Story
“I miss women,” he went on. “I miss that kind of intimacy. But I think whatever people do; they do in search of pleasure. Or trying to get rid of pain or fear, which is the same thing, basically. Everything, everything is really about that. Everything is about bringing your mind to a place where it’s at peace”
― Roland Merullo, quote from A Little Love Story
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“He summoned you into the circle, Scott. For whatever reason, I don't know. But now you've left, you've become a loose thread. He won't sit back with the possibility you might cause his whole world to unravel around him.”
― quote from The Elephant Tree
“...I’m not going anywhere. Remember, I promised. I’m yours now, forever.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
“Was it good?
Nemecsek fixed his blue eyes on Gereb and replied:
Yes, and quietly added: Much better than to be standing on the bank, laughing at me. I'd rather stay in the water neck-deep until New Year than be hand-in-hand with my friends' enemies. I don't mind having dipped in the water. The other day I fell in there by myself. I saw you then, too, with these strangers on the island. But you fellows can invite me as long as you like, you can flatter me and shower me with presents - yet I won't have a thing to do with you. And if you give me another ducking, if you throw me in the water a hundred times, or even a thousand times, I'll come here tomorrow and the day after just the same. I'll find a hiding place where you won't get me. I'm not afraid of anyone of you. And if you'll come to Paul Street, to take our ground away, we'll be on the spot! And don't you forget that either! I'll show you that with ten of us against your ten, you'll hear a different sort of talk from what I'm giving you now. It was easy enough to get the better of me! The one that's stronger always wins! The Pasztor boys stole my marbles in the Museum Garden because they were stronger. Now I got a ducking because you are stronger! Easy enough when ten are against one! But I don't care! You can even beat me up, if it'll do you good. I could have saved myself from the ducking, but I wouldn't join you. I'd rather be drowned or have my brains knocked out than be a traitor...like....somebody standing over...there....”
― Ferenc Molnár, quote from The Paul Street Boys
“Это свинство, и это... жизнь. Какой же смысл в бессмертии свинства? К чему все
это ведет? Зачем все это нужно? Вы не создаете пищи, а между тем пища,
съеденная или выброшенная вами, могла бы спасти жизнь десяткам несчастных,
которые эту пищу создают, но не едят. Какого бессмертия заслужили вы? Или
они? Возьмите нас с вами. Чего стоит ваше хваленое бессмертие, когда ваша
жизнь столкнулась с моей? Вам хочется назад, на сушу, так как там раздолье
для привычного вам свинства. По своему капризу я держу вас на этой шхуне,
где процветает мое свинство. И буду держать. Я или сломаю вас, или
переделаю. Вы можете умереть здесь сегодня, через неделю, через месяц. Я мог
бы одним ударом кулака убить вас, -- ведь вы жалкий червяк. Но если мы
бессмертны, то какой во всем этом смысл? Вести себя всю жизнь по-свински,
как мы с вами, -- неужели это к лицу бессмертным? Так для чего же это все?
Почему я держу вас тут?
-- Потому, что вы сильнее, -- выпалил я.
-- Но почему я сильнее? -- не унимался он. -- Потому что во мне больше
этой закваски, чем в вас. Неужели вы не понимаете? Неужели не понимаете?
-- Но жить так -- это же безнадежность! -- воскликнул я.
-- Согласен с вами, -- ответил он. -- И зачем оно нужно вообще, это
брожение, которое и есть сущность жизни? Не двигаться, не быть частицей
жизненной закваски, -- тогда не будет и безнадежности. Но в этомто все и
дело: мы хотим жить и двигаться, несмотря на всю бессмысленность этого,
хотим, потому что это заложено в нас природой, -- стремление жить и
двигаться, бродить. Без этого жизнь остановилась бы. Вот эта жизнь внутри
вас и заставляет вас мечтать о бессмертии. Жизнь внутри вас стремится быть
вечно. Эх! Вечность свинства!”
― Jack London, quote from The Sea Wolf
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