Amadeirado Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a week.
"Don't you? Don't you really?" he asked himself.
"Really I don't," he said to himself. And that was as eloquent as he could be. — Roberto Bolano

An obligation to feel can freeze feelings. — C.S. Lewis

When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts. — Iggy Pop

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history. — Hal Borland

I did not deliberately invent Earthsea, I did not think 'Hey wow - islands are archetypes and archipelagoes are superarchetypes and let's build us an archipelago! I am not an engineer, but an explorer. I discovered Earthsea. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Chocolate is the great love of my life." "That is either the saddest or smartest thing I've ever heard." "Smartest. Chocolate has never let me down and it's brought me a lot closer to the elusive-O than any man ever has. Tastes better, too. — Genna Rulon

My dear, life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually. — Peggy Ashcroft

He couldn't remember talking to himself like an idiot before he moved in with Cole. Ellis snapped his hands away from his face. Epiphany strikes! That's it! Living with Cole has made me batty! — Wade Kelly

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can. — Barry Hughart

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost. — William Dean Howells

In the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch with human beings is fraught with a significance lacking in the too hurried intercourse of ordinary everyday life. On the desert track, there is no such thing as a casual meeting ... — Mildred Cable

I don't ever want to have kids of my own. But I do want a lot of kids. — Anthony Jeselnik