18 quotes
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
The soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
In the end one needs forbearance to get by in this world.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
No one would ever believe how hard it is to be really alone in a city of millions when you don't have money.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
All office workers are afraid of being late for work.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
Nothing makes you madder than wanting to defend yourself against something you can't even get hold of, something the human race is doing to you, but still there's nobody you can grab by the throat.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
He looked at her again, now with the vague abject shyness that older men often have with young women, as though asking their indulgence for no longer being young.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
The only respect in which man is superior to animals is that he can die when he wants to, not just when he has to. Maybe it's the one freedom you can always count on — the freedom to throw your life away.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
Someone who's on top of the world isn't much of an observer: happy people are poor psychologists. But someone who's troubled about something is on the alert. The perceived threat sharpens his senses - he takes in more than he usually does.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.
The Post Office Girl (1982)
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.
The Post Office Girl (1982)