10 quotes
Oh the crap that lies lurking in the English soul. Somewhere it, the English soul, received an injection of romanticism which nearly killed it.
The Moviegoer (1961)
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life.
The Moviegoer (1961)
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
The Moviegoer (1961)
A good rotation. A rotation I define as the experiencing of the new beyond the expectation of the experiencing of the new.
The Moviegoer (1961)
The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
The Moviegoer (1961)
I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. (2.12).
The Moviegoer (1961)
She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness.
The Moviegoer (1961)
I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.
The Moviegoer (1961)
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. (2.9).
The Moviegoer (1961)
A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.
The Moviegoer (1961)