Top 23 Carl-John X. Veraja Quotes
#2. If philosophy is mountain climbing
then literature is an anti-gravity parade
I love thee like a leper colony
loves to make a trade
Carl-John X. Veraja
#4. After considering the source long enough they decided it was correct because it was so fucked up.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#6. Karma works in reverse. You suffer so that you have to commit the crime.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#9. Once you learn to take the pain of admitting to yourself you were fooled, you increasingly become ready to take the pain to those that fooled you.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#11. Karma runs backwards. You suffer so that the violation becomes unavoidable. Your money is no good here.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#12. Set you free? The truth can get you locked up. The truth can get you force medicated. The truth can set you on fire.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#13. When I turned and looked at Emily she looked like a composite of all the women who would have nothing to do with me.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#14. I look to the skies
and expect artificial passenger pigeons,
blackening the light,
people taking potshots for kicks
imagining one day they will be extinct.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#15. The world has PTSD. It is a veteran with a blown mind, having flashbacks as it begs the Sun for one more go-round.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#16. The next day we were all shooting up.
"Jeez. Look at the size of the cotton he just threw in the spoon."
"Yea. What are you trying to prove?"
They had a good laugh at my expense.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#18. I'd heard theories. Destruction of forests had altered pressure zones. Global warming made for stronger storms. Chemtrails indicated government manipulation of the weather. God punished the family and neighbors of idolaters.
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#19. Love was like walking on the moon. A springy step in your heel like you had a heart for cushioning to step on until it burst and the blood floating in red pods among the glowing craters to be boiled into a refining mist in the naked, eternal sunlight.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#21. I felt something I had never felt before, a mixture of fear and pride. I liked it. This was fatherhood. The biggest mistake anyone could make, and yet universally accepted. I had arrived.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#23. We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.
Carl-John X. Veraja
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