4 posts tagged “quotes”
"[It's like] watching bubbles in the primeval ooze... you don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the poor man's nirvana."
--Raymond Chandler, on the then-new medium of television.
I always figure Holden Caulfield would have hated Catcher in the Rye.
--L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg, on MetaFilter
"Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts."
I am by no means a fan of David Foster Wallace, but today I came across a quote from Infinite Jest that, to my mind, neatly captures the transition from one's twenties to thirties.
"You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do."
Good thing to remember next time I try to sell clothes at Buffalo Exchange.
