"Per vagabondo che sia un uomo per sua natura, la casa, se la donna che c’è dentro è apprezzata e i figli amati, ha il gusto che ha il pane. Non va bene a tutte le ore, ma se ne sente la mancanza quando non si ha tutti i giorni."
— José Saramago, Memoriale del Convento
"I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic."
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
"I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don’t."
— Muriel Spark, The Driver’s Seat
"Sex is all right” he says
“It’s all right at the time, and it’s all right before” says Lise, “but the problem is afterwards. That is, if you’re not an animal. Most of the time, afterwards is pretty sad."
— Muriel Spark - The driver’s seat
"It still counts, even though it happened when he was unconscious. It counts doubly because the conscious mind often makes mistakes, falls for the wrong person.But down there in the well, where there is no light and only thousand-year-old water, a man has no reason to make mistakes. God says do it and you do it. Love her and it is so."
— Miranda July - No one belongs here more than you
"Of course, in men’s sports no one ever talks about beauty or grace or the body. Men may profess their “love” of sports, but that love must always be cast and enacted in the symbology of war: elimination vs. advance, hierarchy of rank and standing, obsessive statistics, technical analysis, tribal and/or nationalist fervor, uniforms, mass noise, banners, chest-thumping, face-painting, etc. For reasons that are not well understood, war’s codes are safer for most of us than love’s."
— DFW - Roger Federer as religious experience
(Source: The New York Times)
"The human beauty we’re talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings’ reconciliation with the fact of having a body."
— DFW - Roger Federer as religious experience
(Source: The New York Times)
"Ma quanto amore, signori, quanto amore ho provato, io, nei miei sogni."
— [F. M. Dostoevskij, Memorie del sottosuolo, Roma, Voland 2012, p. 77]
(Source: paolonori.it)
