“There will always be dark characters, but her life is good; it is as she wishes it to be.”
― John O'Brien, quote from Leaving Las Vegas
“That which begins will also end.”
― John O'Brien, quote from Leaving Las Vegas
“He sits at the filthy bar and silently witnesses the change of watch from his will to his independently operating motor skills.”
― John O'Brien, quote from Leaving Las Vegas
“If he drinks one hundred dollars a day--and he can--he's got one hundred days to drink. It's just an arithmetic operation, simple logic.”
― John O'Brien, quote from Leaving Las Vegas
“Purity of execution will only add to the artistic aspects of the whole wretched mess.”
― John O'Brien, quote from Leaving Las Vegas
“His point was made, and he moved along, in keeping with the tangential nature that must consume at least one of them. There is a bottle in his future--perhaps sooner a glass--elsewhere on the line.”
― John O'Brien, quote from Leaving Las Vegas
“He knew that being handy is the kind of conspicuous skill that makes it easier for others to tolerate you. They tolerated, and even liked him, for as long as they could.”
― John O'Brien, quote from Leaving Las Vegas
John O'Brien
Born place: in Oxford, Ohio, The United States
Born date May 21, 1960
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“Where there is great love there are always miracles,”
― Willa Cather, quote from Death Comes for the Archbishop
“I mistook you for a metaphor.”
― Rachel Hartman, quote from Seraphina
“Perhaps there is really nothing else when everything is falling to pieces, I think, except this bit of togetherness and even that is a sweet deception, for when someone else really needs you you cannot follow him or stand by him. I have noticed that often enough in the war when I looked into the face of a dead comrade. Each one of us has his own death and must suffer it alone; no one can help him then.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Black Obelisk
“And he saw it in her eyes. Still. The belief that there could be someone other than herself. You, he wanted to shout. You. No one but you. Stupid, stupid girl.”
― Melina Marchetta, quote from Froi of the Exiles
“The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out.”
― George Bernard Shaw, quote from Pygmalion
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