“But just remember: a woman's like a rose; if you treat her right, she'll bloom, if you don't, she'll wilt.”
“Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.”
“A real man's gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else- or he ain't a real man.”
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might . . . ”
“Yeah, it's hard to care when you're afraid of getting hurt. You know, the sad part is that when most people promise 'for better or for worse,' they really only mean for the better.”
“On his own, he was lost. On his knees, he knew he was found.”
“He was a fireman. And what did she do? She went around lightning fires, while he tried to put them out.”
“Under the Volcano” embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala. Here it shambles like Cervantes, there it rages like Ahab, and every page of it pulsates on Out of Body Auto-Reply, that style of pure Lowry that points at once backward, to all European literature, and forward, to the mother of all nervous breakdowns.”
“But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.”
“You must learn what to fear and what not to fear.”
“The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.”
“You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.”
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