It made me very sad, that question. Sad and defeated. Because I knew she knew why I was thinking about that woman-I was thinking about my own tendencies toward aloneness and I thought I could end up like that woman, with a bird perhaps, or a dog-probably a dog, I know birds are supposed to make good pets but I think there's something creepy about them-but alone with a life that didn't touch or overlap with anyone else's, a sort of hermetically sealed life.
People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem… - Peter Cameron
People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem…
- Peter Cameron
I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual livin… - Peter Cameron
I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual livin…
What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the … - Peter Cameron
What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the …
Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it. I sup… - Peter Cameron
Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it. I sup…
Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words. - Peter Cameron
Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.
I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world… - Peter Cameron
I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world…
I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole no… - Peter Cameron
I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole no…
It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it. - Peter Cameron
It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.
And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this… - Peter Cameron
And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this…
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