Oneself Quotes

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on – almost too good.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Lie one more time and imma quit sparing you.

One of the things that happened is I did a lot of shitty gigs. When you do a bunch of shitty bar gigs you have to get used to people yelling at you, you’re used to thinking on the fly, to dealing with weird situations.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.

To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.

We were purple, one day, we felt whole the next day split apart into red and blue.

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.