Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight <Paris time>. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, ... read more
“There were critics who complained that at 23, rue Quelle Blague the beer tasted like lilac water and the perfumes smelled of hops. As to the quality of the beer we cannot testify – perhaps a taste of it today would leave us sadder Budweiser – but when it came to perfumery, the monks were not inexpert.”
“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is the more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.”
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life’s bittersweet route.”Highlighted by 164 Kindle customers
THE HIGHEST FUNCTION OF LOVE is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.Highlighted by 161 Kindle customers
By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.”Highlighted by 155 Kindle customers
When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don’t think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin’ on himself and start payin’ attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form o’ self-indulgence.”Highlighted by 142 Kindle customers
The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.Highlighted by 139 Kindle customers
“The universe does not have laws. “It has habits. “And habits can be broken.”Highlighted by 129 Kindle customers
“To eliminate the agitation and disappointment of desire, we need but awaken to the fact that we have everything we want and need right now.”Highlighted by 126 Kindle customers
It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.Highlighted by 125 Kindle customers
Persons, says Wiggs, who lack curiosity about life, who find minimal joy in existence, are all to willing, subconsciously, to cooperate with—and attract—disease, accident, and violence.Highlighted by 108 Kindle customers
Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere—the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.Highlighted by 89 Kindle customers
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