What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures.
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| — | Gustave Flaubert (via thechocolatebrigade) |
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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| — | William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (via honeyforthehomeless) |
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.
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| — | C. S. Lewis (via apanoplyofsong) |
