You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
Stephen VizinczeyConsistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
Stephen VizinczeyStichwörter: genius
I had affairs with a few girls of my own age, and they taught me that no girl, however intelligent and war-hearted, can possibly know or feel half as much at twenty as she will at thirty-five.
Stephen VizinczeyStrange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
Stephen VizinczeyStichwörter: education stupidity
We think of ourselves as failures, rather than renounce our belief in the possibility of perfection. We hang on to the hope of eternal love by denying even its temporary validity. It´s less painful to think 'I'm shallow', 'She's self centred', 'We couldn't communicate', 'It was all just physical', than to accept the simple fact that love is a passing sensation, for reasons beyond our control and even beyond our personalities. But who can reassure himself with his own rationalizations? No argument can fill the void of a dead feeling -- that reminder of the ultimate void, our final inconstancy. We're untrue even to life.
Stephen VizinczeyStichwörter: life love romance meaning truthfulness
I suppose it's more unnerving to be a boy than a girl,' she conceded.'It's the boys who have to make fools of themselves.
Stephen VizinczeyI wonder, what kind of life would I have had if it hadn’t been for my mother’s tea-and-cookie parties? Perhaps it’s because of them that I’ve never thought of women as my enemies, as territories I have to conquer, but always as allies and friends - which I believe is the reason why they were friendly to me in turn. I’ve never met those she-devils you hear about: they must be too busy with those men who look upon women as a fortress they have to attack, lay waste and left in ruins.
Stephen VizinczeyStichwörter: fiction
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